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		<title>What does it take to become a leader?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the psychologist responsible for bringing the concept of &#8220;Flow&#8221; into our awareness shares his viewpoint on this question: A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity&#8230;one must first embark on the formidable journey of self-discovery in order to create a vision [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=positivepolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=500025&amp;post=29&amp;subd=positivepolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>6 Positive Guidelines from Michaëlle Jean, Canada&#8217;s Governor General</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Shue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michaëlle Jean, the Governor General of Canada, was interviewed by Aaron Wherry for the 14Jan 2008 Maclean&#8217;s magazine: Canadians Get Their Very Own Oprah (although I was disappointed to find the article about a leading Canadian woman a bit buried on the Maclean&#8217;s site) . In this article, she shared some of her strategies for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=positivepolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=500025&amp;post=27&amp;subd=positivepolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Positive Campaign Pays Off: Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Shue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 24 November 2007, Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard were elected as Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Australia. This was hardly expected. The on-line Progress Magazine described the surprise: &#8230;&#8221;it has been argued that Howard simply outstayed his welcome, had grown tired and voters were attracted by a dynamic and fresh alternative. However, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=positivepolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=500025&amp;post=26&amp;subd=positivepolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Positive Vision for Women in Politics: What Would It Take?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Shue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ What do you think it would take to create a way for women to aspire to being a politician and confident that they won&#8217;t have to change their style to a culture of &#8220;maleness&#8221;? (And what does that mean, anyway?) Bethan Jenkins, the youngest female Member of the National Assembly for Wales wrote an interesting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=positivepolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=500025&amp;post=24&amp;subd=positivepolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women Blogging on Politics</title>
		<link>http://positivepolitics.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/women-blogging-on-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Shue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Catherine Morgan has been creating a list of women who blog about politics &#8212; and she&#8217;s up to 200 and counting! To see her list, pop over to her Informed Voters blog. Following the creation of her list, she started a whole new blog called the Political Voices of Women to give women political bloggers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=positivepolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=500025&amp;post=23&amp;subd=positivepolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What to Wear: Does it Matter?</title>
		<link>http://positivepolitics.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/what-to-wear-does-it-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Shue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to say that I&#8217;m posting this having a history of a very conflicted relationship with clothes. &#160; And I get very frustrated when I want to read about a woman candidate&#8217;s political vision and what I get is a blow-by-blow of what she was wearing and how her hair was done. Or not. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=positivepolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=500025&amp;post=22&amp;subd=positivepolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Myth-Busting: Are Women Really More Talkative than Men?</title>
		<link>http://positivepolitics.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/myth-busting-are-women-really-more-talkative-than-men/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Shue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s &#8220;common knowledge&#8221; that women tend to talk more than men. The common stereotype has the woman chatting away to a silent man &#8212; the implied message being that women fill the airwaves with non-critical information while men are able to respond efficiently by cutting to the chase, making every word count. But is this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=positivepolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=500025&amp;post=21&amp;subd=positivepolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Machiavellianism: What kind of strategy is that?</title>
		<link>http://positivepolitics.wordpress.com/2007/06/12/machiavellianism-what-kind-of-strategy-is-that/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Shue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Machiavellianism in its simplest form is a person&#8217;s tendency to deceive and manipulate others for personal gain. Doesn&#8217;t sound very Nice, does it? Yet there is a political doctrine that has arisen based on this notion. Here are some quotes from the website BuzzFlash.com: Machiavellianism: The political doctrine of Machiavelli, which denies the relevance of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=positivepolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=500025&amp;post=20&amp;subd=positivepolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another View on Politics as Self-Serving</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 21:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Shue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suspect many people think of politicians as out to get as much as they can for themselves&#8211; power, money, status. But maybe they&#8217;re getting much more than that &#8212; good feelings. Here&#8217;s a summary of a new study about people&#8217;s brain activity when they decide to donate money to a charitable cause (emphasis mine): [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=positivepolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=500025&amp;post=19&amp;subd=positivepolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Connecting with your Courage as an Essential Step</title>
		<link>http://positivepolitics.wordpress.com/2007/05/03/connecting-with-your-courage-as-an-essential-step/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 22:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Shue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;One isn&#8217;t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can&#8217;t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.&#8221;Maya Angelou It isn&#8217;t always easy to follow our own sense of rightness, our sense of personal integrity. There are so many external &#8212; and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=positivepolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=500025&amp;post=18&amp;subd=positivepolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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