Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 2, 2016

Neuroscience research has shown that positive environments improve the human brain’s ability to solve problems and think creatively. In 2002, Emmons and McCullough had test subjects keep diaries for a period of six months. Leading with Character: Creativity. Research supports the wisdom of this practice. You May Also Enjoy: .

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 31, 2015

For the Marquis de Lafayette’s extraordinary commitment to America’s cause, America passed a law on January 23, 2002, posthumously bestowing him with honorary citizenship. Image courtesy of Wikipedia user Bava Alcide57 under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Michael Jordan’s Transformation Contributed to His Success.

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Steve Farber

JULY 17, 2014

As an avid reader, I always find it fascinating when I can get a glimpse into the creative process of writers I admire, but I’ve never shared my own process with anyone else. Maybe it’ll help you get some insight into your own creative process. Here now, is an entry from my notebook on November 19, 2002. (I’ve

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

Instead of working with one “perfect” adviser, entrepreneurs should look for firms with diverse master-builder teams who collaborate with, and on behalf of, the client to find creative solutions that work well for the inherent complexity of entrepreneurs and their businesses. About the Author.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 6, 2014

It was published in their April 22, 2002 edition. If you are going to do anything creative, you have to make it up! I finally understood the deeper importance of that question when Larissa MacFarquhar, a journalist from the New Yorker wrote a profile about me. Larissa spent two months traveling around and talking with me. Just be you.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 31, 2011

In 2002 he published Creative Destruction , which argues that globalization created much of the art and music we might consider "native." But the book also introduces the idea of a distinct "ethos" in creative cultures, which Cowen admits is hard to define for an economist. Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, May 30, 2011.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 20, 2020

We have been studying connection since 2002 and we’ve published two books about it, Fired Up or Burned Out and Connection Culture. Get creative on how you might engage in activities with others. . Connecting While Maintaining Physical Isolation.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 31, 2011

2002 Team-Work Requires People To DO Their Own Work. ABOUT Contact Us Create-Learning.com Get Connected Facebook LinkedIn RSS Feed Log in Join and Receive 9 Team-Building & Leadership Activities:That work and allow people to learn from the experience. Eliot Jaques: Social Power and the CEO.

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Building Personal Strength

APRIL 17, 2012

Gardner (1912-2002). I expected him to say something like vision, courage or creativity. It's often called the "executive" part of the brain, because it coordinates functions such as evaluation, logic, intuition, creativity, problem solving, decision making, planning, organizing and managing. His answer surprised me.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 22, 2019

The research drew upon a public opinion dataset that was compiled between 2002 and 2017 to allow for the attitude towards immigration of a few generations of British people to be tracked. A creative mindset – the last characteristic is one that is defined by attitudes such as curiosity and a tolerance for ambiguity. Changing views.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 25, 2014

Enterprises with over 1000 employees lost over 1 million employees between 2002 and 2012 while enterprises with less than 25 people gained over a 1.5 It’s an exciting time and we couldn’t be more thrilled to see where the creative players in this vital new economy head next. million employees—nearly half of those 1.5 About the Author.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Empirical creativity : When faced with uncertainty, 10Xers do not look primarily to other people, conventional wisdom, authority figures, or peers for direction; they look primarily to empirical evidence. They make their bold, creative moves from a sound empirical base.

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The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

Orientation toward innovation and creativity. Since 2002, Carl Harshman — Founder, Institute for Work Attitude and Motivation – has studied hundreds of business leaders’ MAPs. Requirements for change and variety. Dominant motivation driver. Levels of strategic and visionary thinking. Relationship to norms/rules. And much more.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

In fact, Iger reportedly noticed that Pixar’s hugely popular Toy Story characters appeared in the 2005 opening parade at Hong Kong Disneyland while recent Disney animated characters—for example, Lilo & Stitch , released in 2002—were MIA (although Mickey and pals were present and accounted for, of course).

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Also, early morning is an exceptional period of focus and creativity – don’t waste this time on inessential communication. Notes : Harvard Business Review, “Beware the Busy Manager,” February 2002. Opening your email as soon as you get into the office immediately draws you into an onslaught of short-term problems.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

When human learning slows down, people tend to lose creative and problem solving capacity. The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. 2010), and even looking into the impact of facial features (DeBruine, Lisa, 2002).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Empirical Creativity. So we should expect these leaders to be highly creative — to create new, wonderful products. The leaders of the average industry peers also displayed lots of creativity. Well, just staying alive does not produce greatness. You must also create. Yes, but here's the rub.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

Characterizations of what happened in the early years of PARC (founded in 1970) range from strategic fumbles to "wild geysers of creative energy" perfectly appropriate to early-stage invention , but those early years didn't yield the stream of profitable innovations that Xerox had imagined. PARC fell off the innovation radar screen.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 2002, unsure of what to do with his life, he takes off to surf in Indonesia and Australia. Creativity Entrepreneurship' The highlights: In the late 1990’s/early 2000’s, Woodman blows $4M of VC money on a failed venture called funBugs.com, an ultimately ill-conceived loyalty, sweepstakes, and entertainment website.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Blend Images/ERproductions Ltd Creative/Getty Images. In 2002, we implemented the Virginia Mason Production System (VMPS), a management method that employs basic principles of the Toyota Production System for eliminating waste (i.e., In health care today, the conversation around transparency centers on the consumer.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

When managers come up with creative solutions to unforeseen problems or run with unexpected opportunities, they are not undermining systematic implementation; they are demonstrating execution at its best. The problem is that seizing unexpected opportunities is essentially strategy — not execution.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Today, there's a similar bias; people assume that small companies are creative and big firms are slow and bureaucratic. Back in 2002 , when Sam Palmisano took over, IBM had four main businesses each organized on a global basis: hardware, software, services,such as back-office outsourcing, and personal computers.

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Michael Lee Stallard

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

The New England Patriots just won their fifth National Football League Championship since 2002, but their success isn’t a surprise to those who study connection. Image courtesy of Wikimedia user Brian McDermott under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Vince Lombardi’s Success Formula: “Task + Relationship Excellence = Results”.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

Conflict, when well managed and focused on a team's objectives, can generate more creative solutions than one sees in conflict-free groups. He is interviewed by HBR in " Why Teams Don't Work " (May 2009) and is the author of Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performances (Harvard Business School Press, 2002).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Going forward, as student information systems gain functionality and teachers and administrators become more proficient and creative in their analysis and use of data, I believe this is likely to be the most powerful use of technology. Learn more about the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Fired from that firm in 2002, he now runs a nonprofit and two biotech companies. Four years later, she sold the natural-look brand to Estee Lauder – but retained full creative control. “When you collaborate with someone else on something creative, you get to places that you would never get to on your own.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

In the new book, Great by Choice , Jim Collins and Morten analyzed the 1997-2002 period and discovered something interesting. Steve Jobs combined creativity with discipline, and innovation with scale. So what did Jobs do to turn around Apple in his first years as CEO and set it in on a path to amazing growth and performance?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2011

15 years ago Marmite's own "Love It or Hate It" campaign evolved out of a difference of tastes among the creative team at DDB London. When sales once again started to slow in 2002 the campaign idea proved flexible enough to help revive the brand's fortunes once again. One loved the brown, savory spread and one hated it.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

But sales efforts have less and less effect differentiating a product — and creative science/innovation and other value measures are required. HP acquired Compaq in 2002 to give it synergy and mass to compete with Dell in PCs. This means they're buying drugs that could be similar to others already on or coming soon to the market.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In 2002, Google AdWords (a program that puts ads on Google's search results page and content sites across the web) changed everything. Mars no longer had to depend on the creative impulses of expensive Madison Avenue ad writers. Few companies have been willing to invest in randomized mailings and analytics and data mining divisions.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

For example, the rivalry between the Beatles and the Beach Boys is thought to have pushed both groups to greater levels of creativity and performance in their song-writing. ” We then collected nine years of play-by-play data (2002 – 2010), totaling almost half a million unique plays.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

From 2002 to 2012, the impact of individuals’ task performance on unit profitability companywide decreased, on average, from 78% to 51%. But the impact of employees’ “network performance” — that is, how much people give to and take from their coworkers — increased from 22% to 49%.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Seed-stage financing for technology start-ups fell from 16% of total annual private equity investment in 1995 to just 1% in 2002 and recovered to only 4% in 2011, according to data compiled by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. Where did all that money go? Building up the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

We've all been in conversations on the topics of creativity and innovation when Henry Ford's most famous adage is (excuse the pun) trotted out, usually accompanied by a knowing smirk and air of self-evidence. "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.". Battle lines are quickly drawn.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

As advertisers and their agencies continue to experiment with the technological possibilities, it's not hard to imagine reaching the ultimate end, depicted in the 2002 Tom Cruise film Minority Report. (Certainly not me, as I watched Mad Men commercial free.) If you haven't seen it, check out the Gap store scene here on YouTube.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

We tested different approaches and in 2002, we began deploying a new set of interventions now known as the “graduation” approach, which provides these women with a host of services and benefits to move them out of ultra-poverty and eventually into sustainable livelihoods. We need to tap into their creative power.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. This is a creative way of re-treading old knowledge to enable executives to master change rather than feel as they’re victims of it. Current management of both companies were ill-advised on handling the crises.

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