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	<title>The Compass Point &#187; Motivation</title>
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		<title>The fire within</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;To succeed&#8230;it&#8217;s the fire within that must be lit.&#8221; Purpose, mastery, autonomy (mission not money as motivation.)]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Can we have a bake sale?&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[“George, can we have a bake sale?” That was Wednesday last week, in the hallway, right at the start of school. And this afternoon we wired a check for $1124 to the Red Cross. It’s over a week now since we first heard the news of the catastrophic consequences of the earthquake in Haiti.  That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Carrot and the Cattleprod</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago I wrote an article with the title The Carrot and the Cattleprod.  It’s so long ago that although I wrote it on a word processor I no longer have an electronic copy.  It’s buried and yellowing deep in a file cabinet somewhere in the basement. So I don’t know where it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Born to help</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turns out that we may be hard wired to co-operate and help out. And this behavior occurs in children before, and in the absence of, specific training and in babies as early as  twelve months. Biologists are concluding that even infants are innately sociable and helpful to others. And it&#8217;s not a matter of etiquette [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whatever it takes&#8230;.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oldie but goodie. An irresistible cartoon from the Syracuse-Herald Journal 1991 From another era&#8230;or&#8230;?]]></description>
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