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		<title>Paris complete</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 03:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Drain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m living in a kind of post-Paris haze seeking refuge in my photographs, Woody Allen&#8217;s &#8220;Midnight in Paris&#8221;, even the cafe with the french name in Sandringham Road (give me a Bonjour please!). To say that I enjoyed my time there is true. I ran the Paris Marathon, my 15th and last (for now &#8211; [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephendrain.com&#038;blog=8945426&#038;post=3380&#038;subd=stephendrain&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Run while you can</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 01:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Drain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the definition of a leader is followers then you&#8217;d have to say that in the 1970s that&#8217;s what David Bowie certainly was. He led a generation of followers in music and culture, and continues to do so even today, at 67. Reading in The Guardian an article by John Savage this month he talks [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephendrain.com&#038;blog=8945426&#038;post=3278&#038;subd=stephendrain&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Irish impression</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 23:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Drain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My son is getting married in the south of Ireland and I&#8217;ve travelled here.  To be with him and to support him on this happy occasion. I was warned of Irish hospitality which might see my health compromised with some serious drinking which I couldn&#8217;t refuse. When I was young a lot of things were [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephendrain.com&#038;blog=8945426&#038;post=3123&#038;subd=stephendrain&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Humid as for Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Drain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even with a cool breeze running through the house it&#8217;s well over 80% humidity according to the dial in the hallway.  If you&#8217;re a parent of a young child you&#8217;d be sweating too, if you haven&#8217;t done the business by now and got a suitable collection of presents under the tree. It&#8217;s a festival for [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephendrain.com&#038;blog=8945426&#038;post=3115&#038;subd=stephendrain&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Drain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a scam!  The whole year &#8220;I&#8217;ll be 50 next birthday&#8221; or &#8220;50 next year&#8221;.  Hell, whatever happened to being in my forties! That ended on turning 49 I&#8217;ve realised.  Wished I knew that then, but then again I guess I entered my forties a year early too. My Tim turned 20 this month, Dad [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephendrain.com&#038;blog=8945426&#038;post=3110&#038;subd=stephendrain&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five hours of authentic leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 09:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Drain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m back at Waitakere Estate running the Authentic Leadership Course. It&#8217;s great to be back here as always and although it&#8217;s hard work it&#8217;s a kind of a refresher for a short time for me too. Away from the busyness and pressures, there&#8217;s another kind of pressure here &#8211; making sure our leaders on the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephendrain.com&#038;blog=8945426&#038;post=3102&#038;subd=stephendrain&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Barry White</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Drain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that I&#8217;ve got your attention (or not!), it was almost inevitable that Barry would enter my blog world one day. I got caught out by a colleague yesterday &#8211; Barry was on the car-connected iPod &#8211; but he was fine with that. Abba&#8217;s been in the car this week too &#8220;don&#8217;t go wasting your emotion&#8221;  from the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephendrain.com&#038;blog=8945426&#038;post=3093&#038;subd=stephendrain&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>That moment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2012 05:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Drain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Li Cunxin was seven, for no more reason than a look and a glance he was given the opportunity to audition for the Beijing Ballet Company. The rest is history and if you&#8217;re not sure who I&#8217;m talking about yet he&#8217;s popularly known as Mao&#8217;s Last Dancer, from his book and movie of the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephendrain.com&#038;blog=8945426&#038;post=3086&#038;subd=stephendrain&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2012 11:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Drain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The commentator for the women&#8217;s marathon has just said that if you&#8217;re going to be a great marathon runner then you need a great 10k time.  I knew I&#8217;d missed something! I remember joking to a friend before my first marathon that it was only four 10k runs &#8211; how hard could that be? Athletes [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephendrain.com&#038;blog=8945426&#038;post=3077&#038;subd=stephendrain&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Take the Lead in Coaching and Developing Others</title>
		<link>http://stephendrain.com/2012/07/22/take-the-lead-in-coaching-and-developing-others/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2012 12:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Drain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This guest post was provided by Jessica Edmondson who contributes on Leadership skills training for the University Alliance, a division of Bisk Education, Inc. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” Mark Twain In today’s competitive [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephendrain.com&#038;blog=8945426&#038;post=3069&#038;subd=stephendrain&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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