Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 24, 2012

Connecting with people requires empathy i.e. you feel the emotion another individual feels. This is different from sympathy where you recognize the emotion but don’t feel it. In Fired Up or Burned Out , I wrote about the company Cranium and how it designs “high five moments” into its games. High five moments are times when people connect via the shared empathy of joy (remember that we define “the force of connection” as shared identity, empathy and understanding).

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 31, 2012

New York City’s WCBS News Radio 880 ran portions of an interview I did with daytime host Pat Farnack. Here are links to the segments and full interview: Is your workplace killing you? Worse then Toxic. Snakes in Suits. Nick the Doorman. How to Flourish. Full Interview (14 minutes).

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 6, 2012

Last week I met Frances Hesselbein, head of the Frances Hesselbein Institute, over a delightfully long lunch at the Waldorf Astoria. Peter Drucker once called Mrs. Hesselbein America’s best leader. I’ve written about her remarkable leadership of the Girls Scouts of the USA. At one point in our lunch I mentioned to her a quote from Psalm 78:72 about King David’s leadership of Israel.

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