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		<title>Olympic Mavericks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Donahue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read a very interesting article about the Vancouver Olympics titled “Mavericks with Medals” in last Friday’s Wall Street Journal. It noted that of the 37 medals won at the Winter Olympics by athletes from the United States, four of the athletes who won individual medals were “mavericks.” These athletes earned that moniker by training [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Leadership Team&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Donahue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a drink last week with a woman I&#8217;ve known for decades. I admire Ceile a lot and think she’s a pretty darn good leader. She’s also a fan of the movie “Office Space” and does a spot-on imitation of the scene where the “Bobs” (Slydell and Porter) recommend promoting Peter and challenge Lumbergh’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“A Statistical Recovery and Human Recession”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Donahue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This turn of a phrase was widely reported from an address on the state of the US economy by President Obama’s chief economic adviser, Larry Summers.  He spoke these words last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Summers is a very smart guy; he’s past president of Harvard University and former Secretary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colts&#8217; Losing Streak and the Playoffs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Donahue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The pot is still boiling in Indianapolis. It’s been eight days since the Colts pulled their starters in the third quarter of the game against the New York Jets and turned their back on the opportunity make NFL history by running the table and having a perfect season. The loss to the Bills yesterday has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Like the Dept. of Homeland Security?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Donahue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Christmas day, a Nigerian named Uman Farouk Abdulmutallab failed in an attempt to blow up a jetliner flying from Amsterdam to Detroit. In the aftermath, it became clear that the $40 billion in security precautions put in place since 9/11 had failed. In response, the Department of Homeland Security decreed that all passengers on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Law of Unintended Consequences</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Donahue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lesson I learned in my economic classes in graduate school that has had the greatest impact on me is what economists call “The Law of Unintended Consequences.” This term is credited to sociologist Robert K. Merton (who also coined the term “self-fulfilling prophecy”) and states that contrary to the belief that only the results [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Head, Heart or Groin</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Donahue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite Vistage speakers is Michael Allosso; he spoke to my key group in 2008 and came back to Indy twice this month to address my CEO group and share Part Deux with my key group. Michael is an actor, director and 2007 Vistage Speaker of the Year; he’s presented to Vistage groups [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nevil Shute</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Donahue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading my third novel by author, Nevil Shute. I first heard of him in 2007 when Vistage speaker Herbert Meyer (who worked for the CIA) recommended Shute’s book “Kindling” and called it “a book every teacher should read.” The book was published in 1938; it contrasts the power of government fiscal policy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“This day is call&#8217;d the feast of Crispian.”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Donahue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The words above were written by William Shakespeare in Act IV, Scene III of his play, Henry V. And today, October 25 is in fact, the Feast of St. Crispian. It’s also the anniversary of the victory of King Henry’s tattered and outnumbered army over the French in the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.
This blog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My 29th Lunch with Mike</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Donahue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had lunch with my friend Mike last Friday. We’ve been doing this once a quarter on a Friday afternoon since the fall of 2002. All 29 of our quarterly lunch meetings have been at R bistro (http://www.rbistro.com/), chef Regina Mehallick’s great eatery on Mass Ave in Indianapolis’ arts district.
I met Mike in 1999; the [...]]]></description>
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