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		<title>Social Justice: Beyond Rankism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you glanced at my résumé you might assume that the high point of my life was at age thirty-three, being appointed as the president of Oberlin College. But something more significant than anything on my résumé happened a few years after I’d left that job. My awakening, in a shabby Greenwich Village phone booth, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beyondconventionalwisdomblog.com/?p=1287</link>
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		<title>Marketing: Beyond Hype</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Early on I learned that whether playing football or marketing a business the message was the same. “This is war. It’s a zero sum game that you not only need to win, but increase your portion of the pie by squeezing your opponents down to nothing.”
I got pretty darn good at setting my sights and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beyondconventionalwisdomblog.com/?p=1349</link>
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		<title>Happiness: Beyond Worry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you noticed the power and magical quality we give to worry? For many people, not worrying is equated being uncaring or naïve. Michael, my partner, has told me on many occasions, &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry; it will all work out.&#8221;  I would always reply, &#8220;Yes, but how?&#8221; He would say, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know, but I know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beyondconventionalwisdomblog.com/?p=1262</link>
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		<title>Politics: Beyond Partisanship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent the first half of my life as a strident hater of liberals. Then, upon losing a risky bid for Congress, my marriage, business and political reputation disintegrated. After struggling with and for political power for almost a decade, fueled by an undercurrent of anger and righteousness, I left Republican politics. Exhausted and disillusioned, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beyondconventionalwisdomblog.com/?p=973</link>
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		<title>Sex: Beyond Performance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Does your sex life fulfill your need to feel loved? Are you able to have satisfying conversations with your sexual partner about your sexual likes, dislikes, fears, shame and need for both freedom and emotional connection? Are you able to listen compassionately and understand more when your partner talks about his/her sexual feelings, needs, desires [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beyondconventionalwisdomblog.com/?p=706</link>
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		<title>Psychotherapy: Beyond Analyzing or Directing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Don’t therapize me!,” “I hate it when you psychoanalyze me!”, or “Cut out that psychobabble!” Phrases like these epitomize commonly thought of adverse reactions to psychotherapy. What does your picture of psychotherapy look like?
The face of psychotherapy whether practiced in an office, from a book, or in the media typically looks like a guru giving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beyondconventionalwisdomblog.com/?p=743</link>
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		<title>Community: Beyond Together</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Community is typically thought of as a group of people living in the same locality or regularly gathering together such as in a work, social or on-line community. But, for many of us, just being in the same neighborhood, home or in cyberspace is not satisfying. My hunger for community is not met just by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beyondconventionalwisdomblog.com/?p=324</link>
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		<title>Mission Statements: Beyond Words</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever worked for companies with Mission Statements or written your own? You don’t have to raise your hands but, how many of you have found them filled with wonderfully sounding ideas that were rarely practiced? In many of the companies that I served as a business consultant, the mission statement had become the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beyondconventionalwisdomblog.com/?p=332</link>
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		<title>Play: Beyond Mature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As far back as I can remember play was for kids. Games were serious and competitive contests. Winners were better and more masculine than losers. Parents bragged about winners and avoided talking about losers. Rules were written and unbreakable. Mature people didn’t play, they put their noses to the grindstone and were productive. I had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beyondconventionalwisdomblog.com/?p=319</link>
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		<title>Peace: Beyond Between Wars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Imagine” is one of the most popular songs of all time because it speaks to the heart of one of our most basic desires. When you allow John Lennon’s words and music to fill your heart, what does your heart tell you about your desire for peace? Not just living in a peaceful world but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beyondconventionalwisdomblog.com/?p=222</link>
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