"If you throw into the mix that people are worried about finances, any other issue that's already there, like an ill child or a disabled child, is going to be magnified that much more, " she says.

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Many of us have the desire to achieve more in 2013, and if you are in a leadership capacity of any kind, even as an individual contributor, there are few things that you control that will help you to achieve those goals as much as improving your leadership ability.

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"If you put out ideas that are really thoughtful and thoroughly vetted, there's less of a likelihood that we will get an overreaction legislatively, or any other way, to jump toward knee-jerk solutions that are sub-optimal, " Paulson says.

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