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		<title>Leslie Marquard featured in NY Times article: Meeting on the Right Side of the Brain</title>
		<link>http://www.marbleleadership.com/blog/2008/04/30/leslie-marquard-featured-in-ny-times-article-meeting-on-the-right-side-of-the-brain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Marquard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the NY Times article by ELAINE GLUSAC:

Meeting on the Right Side of the Brain
WHEN Leslie Marquard, an executive coach, holds strategy sessions for consulting firms or university administrators, she ushers her buttoned-up clientele into rooms full of Pogo sticks, ethnic art, hammocks, vintage furniture and a pillow “harem.”
“They are surprised and also endeared by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leslie Marquard to speak at GMA Week 2008 in Nashville</title>
		<link>http://www.marbleleadership.com/blog/2008/03/12/leslie-marquard-to-speak-at-gma-week-2008-in-nashville/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Marquard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Managing Director Leslie Marquard will speak on Monday, April 21, and Tuesday, April 22.¬† This is her fourth year serving the CMB track participants as a thought leader and executive coach.
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		<title>Bill Marquard comments on Fresh and Easy Neighborhood Market in Sacramento Business Journal</title>
		<link>http://www.marbleleadership.com/blog/2008/03/12/bill-marquard-comments-on-fresh-and-easy-neighborhood-market-in-sacramento-business-journal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Marquard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Marquard commented on the format, strategy, and focus of Tesco&#8217;s U.S. retail stroe concept, Fresh and Easy Neighborhood Markets.
Click here for the article.
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		<title>Prime Time America interviews Bill Marquard on how corporations can increase value with corporate stewardship.</title>
		<link>http://www.marbleleadership.com/blog/2008/02/13/prime-time-america-interviews-bill-marquard-on-how-corporations-can-increase-value-with-corporate-stewardship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Marquard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here to hear the interview.
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		<title>Bill Marquard Speaking in Guatemala on Principles-Based Leadership</title>
		<link>http://www.marbleleadership.com/blog/2007/04/11/bill-marquard-speaking-in-guatemala-on-principles-based-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Marquard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Marquard will speak to 1,200 people over three days in Guatemala.  His speech, entitled &#8220;Choose or Lose: Making Smart Choices in a Wal-Mart World&#8221; is based on the key lessons on his book, Wal-Smart: What it Really Takes to Profit in a Wal-Mart World.  The speeches are sponsored by Guatemala Prospera, an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Marquard to be Keynote Speaker at Retailing Today&#8217;s 30th Annual SPARC Awards Luncheon</title>
		<link>http://www.marbleleadership.com/blog/2007/04/11/bill-marquard-to-be-keynote-speaker-at-retailing-todays-30th-annual-sparc-award-luncheon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Marquard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Marquard, author of Wal-Smart: What it Really Takes to Profit in a Wal-Mart World, will be the keynote speaker at Retailing Today&#8217;s 30th Annual SPARC, Supplier Performance Awards by Retail Category luncheon in Chicago on September 20, 2007.
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		<title>Charles Fishman, author of The Wal-Mart Effect, comments on Wal-Smart in the Boston Globe</title>
		<link>http://www.marbleleadership.com/blog/2007/03/25/wal-mart-effect-author-charles-fishman-comments-on-wal-smart-in-the-boston-globe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Marquard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent review of Wal-Smart: What it Really Takes to Profit in a Wal-Mart World, in the Boston Globe, noted author Charles Fishman recommended Wal-Smart:
&#8220;There&#8217;s no excuse for not understanding what&#8217;s going to happen to you and your business as you step into the Wal-Mart arena,&#8221; said Charles Fishman, author of &#8220;The Wal-Mart Effect,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TheHighCalling.org: Bill Marquard discusses Wal-Smart, business strategy, and the faith behind his work</title>
		<link>http://www.marbleleadership.com/blog/2007/03/15/bill-marquard-discusses-wal-smart-business-strategy-and-the-faith-behind-his-work-at-thehighcallingorg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Marquard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How does the rest of the retail world win against Wal-Mart? What can Wal-Mart teach other companies‚Äîand individuals‚Äîabout analysis and competition? For thinkers of every stripe, a new book by business author Bill Marquard assembles the analysis and principles of how to go up against Goliaths.
Click here to read the entire interview at TheHighCalling.org.
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		<title>Bill Marquard interviewed on CNBC Power Lunch</title>
		<link>http://www.marbleleadership.com/blog/2007/02/20/bill-marquard-interviewed-on-cnbc-power-lunch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Marquard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marquard maintains that Scott ‚Äúinherited‚Äù baggage including a market multiple that ‚Äúgot well ahead‚Äù of the stock and the company‚Äôs growth. However, the consultant says Scott has presided over a resurgence of the firm‚Äôs former ‚Äúproductivity loop‚Äù and ‚Äústrong process organization‚Äù ‚Äî which has helped reverse the six-year downward trend in Wal-Mart‚Äôs overall-sales growth rate, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Publisher&#8217;s Weekly review of Wal-Smart:  &#8220;Marquard knows his subject intimately&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.marbleleadership.com/blog/2007/01/08/publishers-weekly-review-of-wal-smart-marquard-knows-his-subject-intimately/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Marquard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marquard‚Ä¶knows his subject intimately and describes the controversial retail goliath with admirable neutrality, bringing together the conclusions of various research studies on relevant topics-wage and expansion policies, for instance-rather than praising or condemning Wal-Mart‚Äôs polarizing business practices himself.
Publisher‚Äôs Weekly, January 8, 2007
Click HERE to read the full review.
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