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		<title>How to Deliver a Difficult Message</title>
		<link>http://www.marcusasmith.com/2010/03/25/how-to-deliver-a-difficult-message/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Delivering difficult messages is a part of life.  For simplicity&#8217;s sake difficult will be defined as anything that will create animosity within your audience.  Gut wrenching situations such as engineering a layoff, breaking up a relationship, or denying service to a customer come to mind.  These situations are uncomfortable for all parties involved.
When forced to [...]


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		<title>The Tipping Point</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 01:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was the start of a nightmare.  A painstaking presentation was taking place.  I was trying everything known to man to stay awake.  For 5 minutes I scrolled through my blackberry looking for distractions.  When that proved to be futile I began thumbing through my notebook looking for an interesting story or factoid.  In a [...]


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		<title>Angels and Demons</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 02:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus A Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your life is a summation of well over a million experiences.  You participate in common events like eating, sleeping, breathing, working, exercising,  reading, learning, and driving several times in a day.  Those are all basic actions of human survival.
You experience emotions with the same regularity as the actions listed above.  At some point your emotions [...]


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		<title>Knowledge Murders Nervousness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus A Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[95% of American teenagers get a reality check with their first work experience.  Before you start working you envision a lifestyle of glitz, glamor, world wide respect, and humongous paychecks.  For me that dream was unceremoniously crushed by the harsh reality that only a sink full of dishes, a 25% full jar of Palmolive, and [...]


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		<title>3 Quick Ways to Dramatically Enhance Your Creativity</title>
		<link>http://www.marcusasmith.com/2009/01/11/3-quick-ways-to-dramatically-enhance-your-creativity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus A Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people struggle when it comes to creativity.  Its not a huge surprise.  Our educational system is tailored towards short-term memory and regurgitation.  We are rarely given creative tasks.  When a creative task is assigned it almost always an &#8220;extra credit&#8221; assignment of secondary importance.
Being creative isn&#8217;t &#8220;difficult&#8221;, its just foreign.  Fortunately, I&#8217;ve come up [...]


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		<title>The Silent Treatment Works Every Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus A Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It annoys me when people are not paying attention when I speak.  Noisy people in the crowd undermine the speaker&#8217;s presence and nullify the speaker&#8217;s message.  That type of behavior is totally unacceptable and as a speaker you have to nip it in the bud immediately.
My favorite way to quiet a crowd and get the [...]


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		<title>Create Conflict to Gain Attention</title>
		<link>http://www.marcusasmith.com/2008/10/11/create-conflict-to-gain-attention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus A Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before his famed &#8220;nappy headed&#8221; comment about the Rutgers women basketball team I had no idea who Don Imus was.  I didn&#8217;t know he had a morning show.  I didn&#8217;t know he was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame.  I didn&#8217;t know that Time magazine named him one of the most influential people in [...]


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