Michael Lee Stallard

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Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?

Michael Lee Stallard

By 2010, nearly 27 percent had just one person. A 2010 AARP survey found that 35 percent of adults older than 45 were chronically lonely as opposed to 20 percent a decade earlier. A 2010 Hoover Institute paper stated in 1950 the U.S. ” The rise in loneliness has led to an explosion in the number of paid confidants. .

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Has Jim Goodnight Cracked the Code of Corporate Culture?

Michael Lee Stallard

Published by Michael Lee Stallard on June 18, 2010 09:30 am under E Pluribus Partners , Media Appearances , connection culture , employee engagement Today, The Economic Times in India published an article I wrote about Jim Goodnight and SAS Institute. To help employees learn and grow, SAS encourages participation in industry conferences.

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What Are “Sustainable Values”?

Michael Lee Stallard

Published by Michael Lee Stallard on May 17, 2010 05:41 am under E Pluribus Partners , connection culture , employee engagement In my last post, I wrote about “sustainable values,&# i.e. the beliefs and behaviors that produce an inspiring identity, human value and knowledge flow in groups that help people thrive individually and collectively.

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John Wooden: What the Obituaries Missed

Michael Lee Stallard

The character values, or blocks of the pyramid, were: industriousness, enthusiasm, friendship, loyalty, cooperation, self-control, alertness, initiative, intentness, condition, skill, and team spirit. Meta Log in Entries RSS Comments RSS WordPress.org Copyright © 2010 Michael Lee Stallard Military Gamification in Everything?

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Strategic Alignment: Pixar Puts the “Corpus” Back in Corporation

Michael Lee Stallard

I know what I’m describing is the antithesis of the free-agency practices that prevail in the movie industry, but that’s the point: I believe that community matters.” Meta Log in Entries RSS Comments RSS WordPress.org Copyright © 2010 Michael Lee Stallard Does your organization act like one body? why is everyone smiling?

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Sustainable Leadership and Organizations: The Ideas of Martin Seligman

Michael Lee Stallard

2 Comments so far william czander on May 31st, 2010 Happiness coaches are part of the great conspiracy that began some 20 years ago when CEO’s , hedge fund managers and bankers discovered if they outsourced jobs to China and India it would increase the bottom line and they would all get rich. I wonder why? Military Gamification in Everything?

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Has SAS Institute’s Goodnight Cracked the Code on Corporate Culture?

Michael Lee Stallard

Recently, SAS was named number 1 on Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list for 2010. Its annual employee turnover rate of approximately four percent — versus the typical 20 percent experienced by companies in the software industry – provides additional data that support Goodnight’s approach.

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