Michael Lee Stallard

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The Mosaic That is Innovation: New Article in TD Magazine

Michael Lee Stallard

According to a World Bank analysis, innovation is on the decline. Given innovation’s role in moving organizations and society forward, what can we do to encourage it? One way to foster innovation is to encourage connection in our work cultures.

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Beware the Brutally Honest Workplace

Michael Lee Stallard

People are more likely to listen and consider your point of view when you speak honestly while applying these three practices: Keep positive “relationship bank accounts”. The idea of a relationship bank account is one approach to show you care. Research by the psychologist John Gottman found this approach works in marriages, too.

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What Mayo Clinic Discovered About Burnout

Michael Lee Stallard

Amy Banks, M.D., Dr. Banks is a former instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and is presently the director of advanced training at the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at the Wellesley Centers for Women. author of an excellent recent book titled Wired to Connect , uses the acronym “C.A.R.E.”

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Having an Old-fashioned Nervous Breakdown Might Be a Good Thing

Michael Lee Stallard

Writing in 1936 of his own experience of having a nervous breakdown, Fitzgerald used the analogy of overdrawing money from a bank account: “I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.”

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Why Edward Jones is Built to Last

Michael Lee Stallard

For example, the chemical company DuPont began as a gunpowder company, and Mitsui of Japan began as a drapery shop before it moved successively into banking, mining, and manufacturing. In fact, each of the 27 companies had changed its business portfolio at least once.

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

Michael Lee Stallard

He spoke of using parallel processing, a form of artificial intelligence, to create new solutions that address thorny risk management issues faced by financial services institutions such as banks and insurance companies. Education is another field he mentioned.

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Has Jim Goodnight Cracked the Code of Corporate Culture?

Michael Lee Stallard

He spoke of using parallel processing, a form of artificial intelligence, to create new solutions that address thorny risk management issues faced by financial services institutions such as banks and insurance companies. Education is another field he mentioned.