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		<title>Quotes of the Day – On Winning Inch-by-Inch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Inch-by-inch, this is how football is won.  In the movie Any Given Sunday (1999), Al Pacino (as Head Coach Tony D’Amato) delivers this powerful message to his team at their biggest professional game of their lives:
“… As we get older, some things are taken away… well, that’s part of life, but you only learn that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.williamwu.com/blog/?p=79</link>
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		<title>Quotes of the Day – On Success Trap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before I started my own company, one seasoned entrepreneur friend gave me a sincere advice that “Startup is harder than you imagine. And if you are lucky enough, your company may get acquired which means that you are back at working for a big company.”
He has a point, but my mid-life crisis was too big [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.williamwu.com/blog/?p=78</link>
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		<title>Quotes of the Day – Lessons from Growing Garden and Selling Fish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you compared running a company to grow a garden or sell fish?  Recently I read a couple of books that did exactly that.  Both books brought interesting perspectives that are worth sharing.  
First book is from Jeffrey J. Fox’s book How to Be a Fierce Competitor.

In this book, Mr. Fox describes if a garden were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.williamwu.com/blog/?p=77</link>
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		<title>Quotes of The Day - Personal Reminder List</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, I visited Reno, Nevada for a quick family trip and picked up a book from a local author G. Brian Benson.  Brian wrote his book Brian’s List (http://www.brianslistbook.com/) that presents 26 ½ easy to use ideas on how to live a fun, balanced, and healthy life!  The list is long, but nonetheless [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.williamwu.com/blog/?p=76</link>
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		<title>Quotes of the Day – On Improvisation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the holiday travel, I ran into a fascinating book Improv Wisdom: Don’t Prepare, Just Show Up by Patricia Ryan Madson.  It highlights a lot of what I consider essential for building up a great culture of a young company.

The book argues that human beings are improvisers by nature.  All conversation - indeed, all natural [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.williamwu.com/blog/?p=75</link>
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		<title>Quotes of the Day - On Gratitude</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is Thanksgiving break - a few days to eat, reflect and be thankful. 
I am thankful for what life has given me so far.  I will always be thankful to my parents, my wife, my business partner and a few of my long-time close friends.  They helped shape who I am and how I view [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.williamwu.com/blog/?p=74</link>
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		<title>Quotes of the Day – On HAPPY Recruiting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An entrepreneur’s initial challenge is to do two things: first, to envision the future and enroll people to make that future become reality, and second, to engage people in the business so that they see the organization&#8217;s success as the platform for their success.
To enroll people means that you need to recruit those who believe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.williamwu.com/blog/?p=73</link>
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		<title>Quotes of the Day - On Leadership Paradox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been a fan of Tao Te Ching (道德經, roughly translates to “How Things Work” in English) by the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu (老子, 600 B.C.). The idea of Yin and Yang makes intuitive sense, but at the same time the logics are often paradoxical and leave room for imagination. We smile and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.williamwu.com/blog/?p=72</link>
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		<title>Quotes of the Day – On Talking Too Much</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a human nature to want to be heard, to share our thoughts, and to relate our own experience with others. But ask yourself:

How many times that your friend described to you his/her experience and you were more than eager to jump in to tell him/her your own stories and more?
How many times that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.williamwu.com/blog/?p=71</link>
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		<title>Quotes of the Day – On Leader’s Character</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the books that I personally enjoyed tremendously is “The FIVE Temptations of a C.E.O.” by Patrick Lencioni. 

This is a provocative fable leadership story that depicts the challenge and inspiration of overcoming the five deceptively simple barriers to successful leadership.  The story introduces a struggling CEO, Andrew O’Brien, who meets a wise old janitor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.williamwu.com/blog/?p=70</link>
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