Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Recently I was helping run workshops on leadership at Texas Christian University (TCU), a university of just under 10,000 students based in Fort Worth, Texas. Andy Dalton, a 2011 TCU graduate who is quarterback and a member of the Cincinnati Bengals’ leadership team, is another fine example.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 4, 2016

I ask this question frequently – of executives I’m coaching to improve their company’s culture, of keynote audiences, in leadership workshops, and more. A 2014 Tiny HR study found that only 21 percent of employees feel strongly valued at work. I ask what that team was like for them.

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Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

As I write this post, I have on my desk a beautiful letter from a participant in a leadership workshop I was facilitating. That note is still sitting on my desk on this 24th day of September, 2014. When was the last time you received a note like that? More important, when was the last time you wrote one? Carl English.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 19, 2015

When I ask this question while teaching workshops on leadership, nearly all the bosses in the room respond that they are the ones under greater stress. Consider two studies published in 2014 by Gary D. They’re wrong. Sherman, et al.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Mark has been featured as a keynote speaker and workshop director by the Tiger Woods Foundation, Smithsonian Institute and National Association of Colleges and Employers. Together with Ted Coiné, they will be releasing their book A World Gone Social on September 22, 2014.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 15, 2016

I wrote this post for another publication in 2014, but it appears they have deleted it. I’m preparing to do a workshop on how to nurture high potentials and found it in my archives. Still looks relevant to me! Warning: the following article contains a heavy dose of sarcasm.

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leaderCommunicator

OCTOBER 2, 2014

©2014 Kate Nasser, CAS, Inc. Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™, is a smart, energizing, experienced speaker, coach, and workshop leader. Her work in employee engagement, leadership, teamwork, and customer service transforms how people think, act, and interact. Appreciation comes from interdependent connection.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 29, 2015

Photo of attendees at the 2014 forum. Topics and speakers at the conference include: Kevin Murphy – Application and Lessons of Deming’s Perspective on Leadership. Leadership – Shaping the Future by Kevin Cahill. Reflections on Approaches to Leadership) by Mike Beck. By What Method?

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Author of two best-selling leadership books.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

Despite studies showing that succession is an essential part of strategic planning, many companies ignore leadership development to focus on more immediate challenges. Establish a set of clear and defined leadership competencies , so HR and other stakeholders know whom to fast track for leadership. For example, when a U.S.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 28, 2015

In Tindell’s excellent book, Uncontainable , he describes how he and his leadership team went on to shape The Container Store’s outstanding “employee first” culture in ways that reflect love. The first time I heard the word “love” uttered in a corporate context I was teaching a workshop on leadership for Lockheed Martin Aerospace.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

In contrast to “transformational” and “authentic” leadership, which has been criticized for being fuzzy and wishy-washy , “fitness leadership,” as we refer to it, offers a more concrete approach. When he was brought in as CEO in August 2014, the company wasn’t in great shape.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

To reverse this, senior leadership took a number of steps. In early 2014, they established a “catalyst fund” – a pool of money that internal innovation teams could use for doing rapid proof of concept on new ideas. First they agreed to shift funding from small, incremental acquisitions to innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

You can rely on experienced veterans already within the organization to identify transferable leadership strengths and expertise. This means that only about two in 10 veterans will hold their first non-military job for more than two years. Design a specific onboarding and integration program for veterans.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

As a result, my company Frontier Strategy Group has forecasted Russia’s economy to grow at an average of around 1% YOY during the next three years (lower than its 3% YOY growth between 2006 and 2014) — not the rapid bounce-back companies are hoping for. How to create growth in a stagnating market.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

In 2014, the company set a strategic goal to double revenue by 2020, which required disciplined focus on specific strategic growth trajectories. The workshops encouraged and equipped the operating managers and HR teams to take a fresh look at their workforce goals and options. Greater strategic focus required a new workforce approach.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

day, scale-focused workshops and related activities. And we convened two dozen investors and investment professionals from around the country in a unique, closed-door Financial Innovations Workshop to see the growth first hand and then to invent financial instruments that would help them profit from financing the growth.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 24, 2014

Instead start smaller, with a key sub process, with leadership and a culture in that function or business unit that support employees working together and understanding how to look at a process and use data, diagrams, and the voice of the customer to improve it. Uncommitted leadership. If you have uncommitted leadership, stop.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

The parts of the business where the approach is used most intensively grew revenue by double digits in 2014. Throughout these years of cultural transformation, Intuit’s leadership support has been constant. Then he meets with the leadership team. The new approach is working. Rich Products , a $3.3

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

GE vice chairman Beth Comstock spoke to the issues of speed and continual customer input in a 2014 interview, when she said, “We work in these very complex, deep industrial technologies. More flexibility about making changes to ideas as they progress from concept to “minimum viable product” to finished product.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

When the Chinese Communist Party’s central committee wraps up the Third Plenum on November 12, 2014, a shift from efficiency to innovation will likely be one of the major planks in its vision for China. Many Chinese executives seem to recognize the challenges. in 2025.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

The first day was a three hour action workshop in which a group used a “ What If…? for yourself at our 2014 Conference. BIF9 Critical thinking Culture Innovation Leadership What If' Our second conference this past March was a two day event. What if the World craves your curiosity?

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Venture Capitalist Conference Education Class 132

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

But none articulates the workforce of the future as well as the observation of HR executives in a series of recent workshops we’ve led in in Hong Kong, Western Europe, and Silicon Valley. Training magazine reported that 2015 training expenditures were approximately $70 billion dollars , a 14% increase from 2014.

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