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Michael Lee Stallard

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Community: Often Overlooked Cause of Good Health

Michael Lee Stallard

A couple years ago I had the good fortune to meet Malcolm Gladwell at a Rotman Business School event and tell him how much I enjoyed his work. One of my favorite stories in Malcolm’s latest book entitled Outliers is about Roseto, Pennsylvania. As it turns out, residents of Roseto were outliers in terms of their good health. A curious doctor set out to understand why.

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To Achieve Excellence

Michael Lee Stallard

Michael Lee Stallard and Jason Pankau. K. Anders Ericsson and his colleagues famously concluded that 10,000 hours of deliberate practice are required to achieve excellence and expert status. Malcolm Gladwell popularized Ericsson’s 10,000 hour rule in his book Outliers. What many forget is that Ericsson’s research also concluded the experts benefitted from coaching and mentoring by people who told them the truth, even when it was painful to hear.

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My Blog on LeadershipDigital

Michael Lee Stallard

Recently I was invited to include my blog content on LeadershipDigital, a topic hub that collects, organizes and finds the best posts and articles that provides an edge to leaders and managers. Topic Hubs are sites that aggregate content from a variety of sources, organize that content around keywords in the topic domain, and support both manual and social curation of that content.

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Leaders Can Learn From College RAs

Michael Lee Stallard

Most leaders can learn an important lesson from the RAs at TCU who are creating a sense of community in the residence halls on campus. You can read about it in this excellent article entitled “ Culture of Caring.&# The article makes an important point that creating a sense of community requires intentionality. Daniel Terry, TCU’s director of Community Renewal, puts it this way: “We’re trying to create whole people here at TCU.

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Alter+Care: Happiness at Work Podcast

Michael Lee Stallard

Jason Pankau and I recently recorded a podcast interview on happiness at work for Alter+Care, the healthcare real estate company. You can hear the podcast at this link.