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	<title>Jonathan Gifford</title>
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		<title>Terence Conran&#8217;s Habitat: changing lifestyles in 1960s Britain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The current Terence Conran exhibition at the London Design Museum reminds us of the startling impact that Habitat had on the tastes and lifestyles of Britons in the 1960s.  As The Guardian’s video contribution to the current wave of Conran reportage says, ‘He transformed the high street!’ It’s true. Shopping for furniture and interior design [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathangifford.com/history-and-modern-culture/terence-conrans-habitat-changing-lifestyles-in-1960s-britain/</link>
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		<title>February 12th, 1809: Abraham Lincoln is born</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln, at a truly critical moment in American history, presented to a troubled and divided nation a clear and commanding vision: that the United States of America was ‘a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.’
Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12th 1809, in a one-room log [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathangifford.com/this-month-in-history/february-12th-1809-abraham-lincoln-is-born/</link>
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		<title>February 11th, 1990. Nelson Mandela walks to freedom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most difficult tasks that a leader may face is to change the engrained ‘mood’ of an organisation; its very culture. South Africa’s Nelson Mandela, who, after his release and his later election as president of a country that had voted for the first time on the basis of ‘one man one vote’, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathangifford.com/this-month-in-history/february-11th-1990-nelson-mandela-walks-to-freedom/</link>
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		<title>Be Decisive &#8211; Great Leadership Idea No. 62</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Change involves risk, and there will never be enough information to guarantee that you have made the right decision. At some point, leaders must trust their accumulated experience and their gut instinct and seize the moment.
An effective decisions made at the right moment
Making decisions is the defining aspect of leadership. There has never been a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathangifford.com/100-great-leadership-ideas/be-decisive-great-leadership-idea-no-62/</link>
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		<title>January 8th, 1976. The first Premier of the People’s Republic of China, Zhou Enlai, dies</title>
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Zhou Enlai was Premier of the People’s Republic of China from the moment the Chinese Communist Party achieved power in 1949, following their defeat of the Nationalist government, until his death in 1976. A dedicated and lifelong communist, Zhou Enlai’s political instincts were moderate and progressive. Famous for his punishing work routine, intelligence and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathangifford.com/this-month-in-history/january-8th-1976-the-first-premier-of-the-people%e2%80%99s-republic-of-china-zhou-enlai-dies/</link>
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		<title>Apple strikes deal with Microsoft &#8211; forging strategic partnerships</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After their death, people’s reputations begin to eclipse the real facts of their lives. ‘Steve Jobs fired as Apple chairman’ and ‘Steve Jobs strikes pragmatic deal with Microsoft’ are not the sort of sub-heads you find in most of the obituaries.
Apple versus Microsoft
Steve Jobs was the genius who founded Apple Inc, the quirky, creative corporation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathangifford.com/business-and-leadership/apple-strikes-deal-with-microsoft-forging-strategic-partnerships/</link>
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		<title>Cameron&#8217;s EU stance shows decisive leadership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whatever you may think about the politics of David Cameron’s decision to play the ‘no’ card at the European Union summit by vetoing moves to use the current European treaty to endorse greater fiscal unity of the eurozone nations, that decisive moment has had one undeniable effect: Cameron’s leadership credentials have suddenly received a massive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathangifford.com/current-leadership-issues/camerons-eu-stance-shows-decisive-leadership/</link>
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		<title>Options and consensus &#8211; Great Leadership Idea No. 35</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Change is implemented more quickly and successfully when alternative options have been discussed in advance, and when the team as a whole has reached a consensus decision on the right way forward. Consensus also helps ensure that the people who are closest to the likely results of a decision get to make their voices heard.
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathangifford.com/100-great-leadership-ideas/options-and-consensus-great-leadership-idea-no-35/</link>
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		<title>Give people autonomy &#8211; Great Leadership Idea No 31</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Successful leaders offer substantial autonomy to members of the team and to parts of the business. Individuals are empowered, and respond to this; decision-making is de-centralised, bringing more opinion and directly relevant experience into the process and, ideally, bringing decision-making closer to the customer. Whole units can be allowed to take control of their own [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathangifford.com/100-great-leadership-ideas/give-people-autonomy-great-leadership-idea-no-31/</link>
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		<title>Zero tolerance and the staff kitchen &#8211; Great Leadership Idea No 60</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If the tap in the staff kitchen is broken and nobody mends it, colleagues quite quickly begin to draw a number of very negative conclusions—in particular, that management isn’t particularly bothered about the welfare or comfort of the staff and that, since management don’t fix things that are broken in the staff&#8217;s day-to-day environment,  it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonathangifford.com/100-great-leadership-ideas/zero-tolerance-and-the-staff-kitchen-great-leadership-idea-no-60/</link>
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