Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 17, 2010

Cultures that have these values exhibit superior strategic alignment, employee engagement, productivity, innovation and overall performance. In our work, we recommend that leaders of organizations promote the universal character values celebrated by religious thinkers and moral philosophers throughout history. why is everyone smiling?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Boston , MA Innovative entrepreneurs will find fertile ground for their ideas in Boston. Ranking third in Popular Science ‘s list of ‘America’s Greenest Cities,’ Boston is putting its recovery money toward clean-energy initiatives. Partner with local R&D brainpower to start your own clean-energy venture.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If opposing views are worth the time and energy to debate, then they are worth a legitimate effort to gain alignment on perspective and resolution on position. In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 31, 2010

“Do business by design rather than by default.&# — The Product Management Perspective: We will improve our effectiveness and our ability to work with others by giving careful thought to these questions. As product leaders we need to plan and then move forward with focus and energy.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 9, 2010

Other good things that happened this week: Jurgen Noop from the Netherlands recognized my blog as one of the top leadership and management blogs. It was a tremendous group with great energy and intelligence. Many thanks, Jurgen! What wonderful people to get to know. I encourage you to check out their work. why is everyone smiling?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Do you have boundless energy or mesmerizing charisma? Walt Disney, one of the greatest creative talents and true innovators of our time realized the value of action when he said: “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.&# A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 20, 2010

There was a terrific energy among group participants. Ed Nichols on April 29th, 2010 As a manager I have always found that the small things can sometimes make the biggest difference – whether its Pizza Friday or an after work run. They were handing out t-shirts and Starbucks baseball caps for participants. What a simple idea!

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside. If you believe the hype, social media will immediately solve all your problems and require no time, energy or effort on your part.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 29, 2010

Focus your mental energy on achieving success and you will see ‘lucky breaks’ come your way consistently. Success doesn’t just happen because someone’s stars line up. Success, both in business and personally, is something that’s consciously created. Success is created through conscious choice.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Get a feel for the time, energy and capabilities required to do those jobs. Periodically you must create timeouts to review where you are investing your time and energy, to ensure that you remain capable of generating new behaviors to deal with new challenges. What do you enjoy now but would have to give up?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Sure, great leaders never lose sight of their core business, they pay attention to managing risk, etc., but they expend far more energy intentionally searching for opportunity, but not just any opportunity – a game changer. What’s interesting is that the best leaders proactively focus on looking for game changers.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 11, 2010

My excuse (and I’ve heard this from many product managers) is that I’ve been heads down on an intense product release and it’s sucking all my time and energy. I started this blog (in 2007) to promote leadership principles in product management. While that is true, it’s no excuse.

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QAspire

AUGUST 17, 2010

You spend efforts and energy on preventing the errors (prevention cost) and then checking your work (appraisal cost). When we research or try to innovate, we essentially do that with the objective of learning. On a second thought, you can only innovate when you don’t have to worry about doing the routine stuff right.

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Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Paul shared a string of fabulous ideas and techniques to help everyone be more effective at both problem solving and innovation. He said that when striving for innovation, leaders should think like venture capitalists. Consider these five action steps: Look for lots of innovative ideas in your area of need.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 19, 2010

It’s the energy that drives you throughout the day. — The Product Management Perspective: Recently I’ve received some great feedback from co-workers and customers. To succeed as a product manager you need to hear what other have to say, apply the positive aspects, swallow your pride and move forward.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 15, 2009

His purpose: “Now, more than ever, we need a different way of thinking, a useful way to focus and the energy to turn the game around.&# Webber “After a decade of truly spectacular underachievement, what we need now is less management and more freedom – fewer individual automatons and more autonomous individuals.&# - Daniel H.

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Lead on Purpose

JANUARY 26, 2010

He discusses succession planning in detail and provides structure and practice for reducing the risks of leadership failures and ensuring that new executives have the abilities, personalities and energy to match the business needs of the organization.

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Over 150 companies, including Durkee, Cremora, San Giorgio, Ronzoni, and McCormick, now use the entire line of Flapper products, and Weatherchem continues to lead the industry in offering the widest, most innovative array of closure products. Unfortunately, my gesture was rebuffed and the union decided to strike.

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 23, 2009

This great book will tell you how.&# – Mark Victor Hansen “Lack of trust within an organization saps its energy, fosters a climate of suspicion and second-guessing, completely devastates teamwork and replaces it with internal politics. — The Product Management Perspective: Trust is vital for product managers.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 6, 2009

Filed under: Innovation , Leadership , Purpose Tagged: | action , choice , focus , Great work , inspire , Michael Bungay Stanier , responsibility « Values or valuables? Doing it once is one time too many. Good work: The familiar, useful, productive work you do and do well.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 8, 2011

I’ll post a little of it here and then a link back to the rest of his post where you can read more and learn some interesting stats on PRICE such as the value of human life and what politicians spent per vote in 2008. …… When you think of PRICE what do you think of? How much money you’ll have to spend to get something you want?

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Kevin Eikenberry

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

.&# We don’t get people to spend their extra time, energies, or talents on something because they fear they’ll get in trouble if they don’t. When managers take the time to encourage success they have cast themselves in the role of true leaders. Do You Really Need a Meeting to Make a Decision?

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Kevin Eikenberry

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

The President asked him to repeat the question, and the energy in the room was further dampened. Five Reasons to Make Discomfort Your Friend How to Get Lazy People to Work Ten Decisions Leaders Make Everyday Ten Ways to Make a Great First Impression Five Minutes - a Key to Successful Time Management Kevin Eikenberry: Thanks Dave!Kevin

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Kevin Eikenberry

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

If you want them to put energy into their walk you must first put it into your steps. Five Reasons to Make Discomfort Your Friend How to Get Lazy People to Work Ten Decisions Leaders Make Everyday Ten Ways to Make a Great First Impression Five Minutes - a Key to Successful Time Management Kevin Eikenberry: Thanks Dave!Kevin

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CO2

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). Sometimes it is difficult to see it.

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CO2

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). Sometimes it is difficult to see it.

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Executive Coaching Wilde Strategic Planning Taylorism 87

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

I mean the real, formal, sit down and talk type of meetings that allow the employee, peer, or manager to say whats on their mind. As a result a lot of idea sharing and thus opportunity for innovations was potentially lost. It may often take creative time management to fit meetings in between tasks. To discuss priorities.

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Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

When you personalize the topic, situation or negative energy, you make it harder to respond in a more positive way. You may take it personally or find the situation so important that you can’t pull yourself out of it. However, the reality is most of the time others are far more focused on themselves and their issues than on you.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

link] Anna Smith “Let the attacks begin” – The number one source for innovation/change is pissed-off people (Tom Peters). Your comment summarizes exactly how things should work as opposed to how they often do. Have a great Thanksgiving Sir. LeRoyD Amen! We are all biased.

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CO2

JANUARY 3, 2011

He also believed that the level of energy in each loop depended on which phase you were in during the combat. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 1, 2013

I started hosting this Carnival in July, 2008, my second year of blogging. Managing this Carnival gives me a reason to connect with each of them, keep up with their blogs, and discover some new ones each month. presents Big-Bang in Practice: Antifragility, Innovation and Leadership. There’s not a weed in the entire bunch!

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QAspire

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Their title may read “Project Leader” and they may be managing a few people, but that does not make them real leaders. Few years back, I heard a project manager saying, “I will screw him up if he does not complete this module today”. Statements like these tell us more about the attitude of the project manager. Works wonders.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Do what has to be done and don’t waste energy on fear that undermines performance— unless the doubt is a nagging hunch of a wrong direction!

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

When CEO Jeff Skilling proclaimed, “I am Enron,” the energy giant was at its peak. Not unlike the destruction of trust brought about by megalomaniacal divas is the damage that Wall Street banks can cause to companies, or to the economy in general, as in the 2008 meltdown. That’s exactly what happened at Enron. Then came the tempest.

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Steve Farber

OCTOBER 25, 2016

And that’s a good thing to keep in mind if you want to help build an innovative culture. We also know he led Athleta through tremendous growth and helped engineer the sale of the company to Gap in 2008 for $150 million. “It is all of our efforts, all of our energy combined, that propels this thing forward.”

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Integration and Innovation Abound – According to the report, 30% of the S&P 100 companies include some oversight of diversity issues at the board level and 34% of companies include diversity measures within their compensation plans. “We Calvert released the first edition of Examining the Cracks in the Ceiling in September 2008.

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Roundtable Talk

MARCH 4, 2010

→ View from the corner cubicle: leadership lessons from Tomer Strolight Posted on March 4, 2010 by LeaderTalker | Leave a comment TorStar Digital is one of Canada’s fastest growing, most innovative media companies. Don’t waste your energies trying to win everyone over. Management’s dirty little secrets exposed!!

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