Michael Lee Stallard

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Leadership Posts from Top Bloggers

Michael Lee Stallard

To start off, are you looking for something that will stretch you as a leader in 2011? Join Scott for a free teleseminar on Charting Your Course for 2011 with a Life GPS®. These bloggers offer answers to some of the most important leadership challenges we all face: Thinking about becoming a more influential leader in 2011?

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3 Factors That Make Costco America’s Best Employer

Michael Lee Stallard

I’ve spoken with Jim Sinegal, Costco’s co-founder and CEO from 1983 to 2011, and interacted with Ryan Watkins, a young Costco warehouse manager across the country in Oregon. The creativity and ingenuity of Costco employees was a sight to behold. Photo courtesy of Flickr user Mike Mozart under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0

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Pfizer’s Straight Talk on Culture

Michael Lee Stallard

You can see evidence of Pfizer’s commitment in Ian Read’s letter to stakeholders the year after he became CEO: In 2011, we thoroughly explored what our culture is and how it needs to evolve. We are committed to creating an ownership culture that unleashes the creativity of our colleagues around the world.

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America’s Loneliness Epidemic: A Hidden Systemic Risk to Organizations

Michael Lee Stallard

Since 2011, research on adolescents has found they spend more time interacting with electronic devices and less time interacting with each other, while also experiencing declining well-being. 2011) found that nearly half the adult US population suffers from one or more addictions that have “serious negative consequences.”

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America’s Stress Epidemic

Michael Lee Stallard

between the ages of 16-30 years old in 2011, it found more than 90 percent of those surveyed rated “connection and community” as their greatest need. Interestingly, Millennials are trying to do just that in response to seeing their Boomer parents’ struggles. When global marketing firm McCann Worldgroup surveyed 1,000 individuals in the U.S.

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