Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Navy One example of a leader who intentionally developed a Connection Culture using all three bridges is Admiral Vern Clark, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) from 2000 until his retirement in 2005. Over the course of 2009, I (Michael) met with and interviewed Admiral Clark and several of the Naval officers who reported to him.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Collaboration is not a “nice to have” set of soft values, but a strategic way of operation which can advantageously negotiate the complex business environment we live in. In 2009, the recession was in full swing. Let’s revisit the basic tenets of collaboration: Utilize differences. Nurture safety and trust.

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Brainstorming Open-book Project Idea Generation 150

Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 8, 2017

As SVP of Operations, I approached my first visit to the field after his death with a great deal of trepidation. He was committed to service, to teamwork, to integrity, to being good corporate citizens, and to acting like…a family. How were we going to deal with this? I had worked with this man for 16 years, and known him for 22.

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Roundtable Talk

JANUARY 12, 2011

She came from the municipal government where she had worked in a department that, according to her, operated at a brutally slow pace (hence, why she wanted to get out). Case in point: I once hired someone who was a terrific person into our highly entrepreneurial fast-paced consulting firm.

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Strategy Career Blog Godin 48

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 3, 2015

Spock inspired young minds to pursue an education in the scientific realm, mirroring his character’s interest in wanting to unravel the mysteries that encompass our world and how it operates. Identifying The Real Hero In Your Organization’s Story Why Emotions Matter In Today’s Leadership Why We Fail At Leadership.

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Film Leadership Influence Learning-by-Doing 100

Roundtable Talk

JANUARY 25, 2011

His speech and book marked the beginning of my realization that the workplace is essentially stuck in the industrial age and bears no resemblance to how we need to operate in the knowledge economy. But, as a manager, I was pretty stumped about what do to about it.

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Stress Blog Godin Crisis Management 39

Roundtable Talk

JUNE 4, 2010

Typically, we’re asked to think about our business plans… how we’re going to meet our targets, reduce costs, improve operations. To say that writing a leadership plan is gruelling would be an understatement.

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Godin Blog Career Mentor 31

Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Jay Woo , CAA South Central Ontario’s Chief Operating Officer offered up this piece of advice: “Stay connected to your front line.” A piece of simple advice, but it’s amazing how few senior leaders walk that talk.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Blog Godin 28

Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

It was one of my first experiences with teamwork and intrinsic motivation being squashed by extrinsic incentives and competition. After escaping GM, I had an opportunity to attend graduate school at MIT, to study operations management, system dynamics, and other topics. There was no opportunity for pride and joy in work there.

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Deming TQM Kaizen Crisis 46

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

Continually improving performance is what matters, and that can only happen with teamwork across functional and company boundaries. A company must get its sales, marketing, research and development, operations, and even customers and suppliers to work together. Yet teamwork across organizational boundaries is unnatural.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Indeed there is a good deal of evidence that using such individual incentives actually creates self-interest, lowers trust, results in poor teamwork, and diminishes commitment. Third, firms driven by values of commitment, teamwork, caring and fairness prevent hierarchy—differentials in perceived power—from undermining performance.

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Company Teamwork Commitment Airlines 8

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 28, 2010

Eisenhower to the position of supreme commander of Operation Overlord. Although he was personally disappointed, Marshall remained working for the president as army chief of staff and appointed Dwight D. It takes an extraordinary personal sense of one’s duty for someone to make a sacrifice of the magnitude made by General Marshall.

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Ryan Learning-by-Doing Career Magazine 220

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

To do so, it had to come up with a brand of management all its own, centered around “people analytics,” a quantitative approach to hiring and operations. Earlier this year, Google’s SVP of People Operations, Laszlo Bock, wrote about its latest “people analytics” experiment. Business in the age of Google.

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IPO Management Engineering Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Companies that operate as a collection of silos commit the cardinal sin of underperforming relative to the resources they have invested. At the oil giant BP a few years back, efforts to promote collaboration across the many operating business were so successful that employees over-collaborated. Under-collaboration.

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CIO Consensus Bottom-up Organizational Behavior 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

To address this shortcoming, Mayo Clinic formed a partnership in 2009 with the American Board of Family Medicine, the American Board of Internal Medicine, and the American Board of Pediatrics to create a pilot program: the Multi-Specialty Portfolio Program for Part IV MOC.

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Quality Mayo System Six Sigma 8

The Idolbuster

AUGUST 5, 2014

In late 2009 one of my friends from college told me he had signed up and was training for an Olympic distance triathlon in an effort to lose weight and live a healthier lifestyle. I don’t operate that way. And I have learned kindness and teamwork go much further than contempt and a superiority complex.

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Training Sports Learning-by-Doing Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

A second was introduced in a medical-surgical unit at Theda Clark Hospital in Neenah in 2009, and a third in another medical-surgical unit at Appleton Medical Center in 2010. The progress to date of ThedaCare’s collaborative care model is evidence that patient-centered teamwork can improve the quality and lower the cost of care.

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Health Care Quality Decentralization Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

For example, an employee who exceeds his targets but treats his team members poorly should not be rewarded in an organization that values teamwork. Many organizations lose some of their best operational people because of creating single pathways to organizational success," says David. Yet, these are not areas of genius for all.

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