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		<title>Who Evaluates the Leader?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, while participating in the Texas Municipal League&#8217;s Leadership Academy, a fellow local government leader made a statement during an open discussion that has stayed with me: “When the leader hates what they’re doing, it’s felt all the way down.” At the time, I did not even know he was a city manager. &#8230; ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Outgrowing the Room: When Capacity Meets Clarity</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[I recently heard a statement that resonated with me: “A giant looks in the mirror and sees nothing.” I didn’t hear that as a story about someone who needs to become bigger, someone who is lost and needs to find their way, someone whose humility should be mistaken for weakness, or someone who needs to &#8230; ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Sometimes Moving Up Means Moving Out</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over the past year or so, I have been thinking differently about professional growth. For a long time, many of us are taught to think about career advancement vertically: work hard, perform well, earn another credential, accept greater responsibility, and eventually someone recognizes that effort with the next opportunity. Sometimes that happens. Sometimes it doesn&#8217;t. &#8230; ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Grounded Wellness: Finding Practices That Work in Real Life</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wellness can sometimes feel like one more thing we are supposed to be doing. Drink more water. Get enough sleep. Exercise. Meditate. Journal. Eat well. Set boundaries. Take breaks. Practice gratitude. Get outside. Turn off the phone. All of these things can support our well-being, but when wellness becomes another list of expectations to meet, &#8230; ]]></description>
		
		
		
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