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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Leaders: Use stories to help achieve sustainable superior performance

Michael Lee Stallard

Although many CEOs of huge organizations would see this as inefficient, Dr. Pardes understood that walking the talk sent a powerful message. He was regularly seen making bedside visits to patients and their families.

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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. Recently, I’ve been learning about the corporate side of Costco, poring over articles and analyst reports. Vision + Value + Voice = Connection).

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3 Practices to Protect Your People from Toxic Stress and Burnout

Michael Lee Stallard

Organizations with greater connection experience five benefits that add up to a powerful source of competitive advantage: superior cognitive and physical performance of employees, higher employee engagement, tighter employee alignment with organizational goals, better communication that helps improve decision-making, and. billion in 2011.

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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

To reverse these ominous trends we need to dial back our achieve-aholic tendencies obsessively to pursue wealth, power, and fame, and spend more time and energy connecting with others in supportive relationships. These five benefits add up to a powerful competitive advantage that comes from having a culture of connection in the workplace.

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