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		<title>So your big product launch failed &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.thebusyfool.com/?p=457</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Horder</dc:creator>
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So, armed with a next-to-nothing budget and a half-way decent network, you tried to launch your new offering onto the world, and it just hasn&#8217;t taken off as you&#8217;d hoped.  Don&#8217;t feel too bad about it &#8230; I&#8217;m reading Buyology
 by branding expert  Martin Lindstrom, and in the first chapter he reveals that on average [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The power of the demo</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Horder</dc:creator>
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Peter Thompson&#8217;s wonderful &#8220;TGI Mondays&#8221; blog this morning really got me thinking &#8211; have a read / listen &#38; see what you think.  It&#8217;s all about the power of actually demonstrating your offer.
What it got me thinking was: how can I demonstrate what I do without actually doing it?  It&#8217;s a challenge many of us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A flash of the bleedin&#8217; obvious!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Horder</dc:creator>
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For months now, I&#8217;ve been struggling with the concept of using Opportunity Matrix as a decision-making tool in corporates, beating myself up about how &#8220;they won&#8217;t like the &#8216;are we excited by this&#8216; attractivness bit&#8221;.  It just felt too airy-fairy for the corporates.  All around my network, people have been throwing their hands up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AUDIO: Why Focus Is Important in Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 10:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Horder</dc:creator>
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Here&#8217;s an MP3 of a talk I gave recently on why focus is important to any successful person:
Why Focus Is Important

Note: in the talk I say that I think Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is management professor at Sloan &#8211; he&#8217;s actually at Drucker in Southern California.
Click on the title to access the audio


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		<title>Where are you looking for success?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Horder</dc:creator>
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In medicine there’s a concept of “locus of control”; it means where the patient looks for control of their condition.  A doctor I spoke with recently told me that there are some conditions where they want an external locus of control, looking outside of themselves for instructions – where they need the patient to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you driven?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Horder</dc:creator>
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No, I don’t mean are you so successful you have a chauffeur!  I mean are you driven to succeed?  Do you feel some force behind you, propelling you forward, driving you to perform?  Is there something that just won’t let you rest until you’ve got everything you set out to achieve?
Many entrepreneurs are like that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rest &amp; Ponder</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Horder</dc:creator>
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Dr Steven Covey wrote, in The Seven Habits Of Highly Successful People, about our ability to choose our response to any situation, to shift our paradigm and see the situation in a different light.  The example he gives is the guy on a train who is letting his kids run riot, and we react by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I&#8217;d just do all of it!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Horder</dc:creator>
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Focus and how to choose between opportunities is a big topic for me, and I&#8217;m always interested t learn how successful entrepreneurs handle it. I was at a fantastic event on Friday on the subject of Influence, with profits going to Peace One Day, started by the amazing Jeremy Gilley (check it out, a brilliant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We might as well beat &#8216;em now!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Horder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a national expectation of failure by the England football team in the 2010 World Cup, it's good to hear at least one radio personality expects England vs Germany will turn out right]]></description>
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		<title>Attitudes are caught, not taught</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Horder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attitudes are not taught, they are picked up - caught - by the people around us observing what we actually do.  So we have to make sure what we do is in line with what we teach.]]></description>
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