Michael Lee Stallard

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Protecting Your Employees (and Yourself) from the Stress-Connection Gap

Michael Lee Stallard

I wasn’t consciously aware of the stress-connection gap I was enduring until I had left the financial services industry and was focusing on helping my wife, Katie, survive advanced ovarian cancer, an experience I wrote about in Alone No Longer.

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

Michael Lee Stallard

Earlier in his career when he worked for a NASA subcontractor on the Apollo program, he observed the dismal environment of employees working in cubicle farms and how it contributed to annual employee turnover of around 50 percent. To help employees learn and grow, SAS encourages participation in industry conferences.

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Why Edward Jones is Built to Last

Michael Lee Stallard

In 1983 Royal Dutch/Shell Group studied 27 companies that had survived more than 100 years, were still important in their industries, and continued to have strong corporate identities. What makes an organization sufficiently resilient to survive over a sustained period of time?

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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. .&# Integral to meeting his standards was achieving the character values reflected in what he called “the Pyramid of Success.” How about you?

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3 Lessons from the Life and Leadership of Coach Wooden

Michael Lee Stallard

The character values, or blocks of the pyramid, included industriousness, enthusiasm, friendship, loyalty, cooperation, self-control, alertness, initiative, intentness, condition, skill, and team spirit. Integral to meeting his standards was achieving the character values reflected in what he called “the Pyramid of Success.”

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Has Jim Goodnight Cracked the Code of Corporate Culture?

Michael Lee Stallard

Earlier in his career when he worked for a NASA subcontractor on the Apollo program, he observed the dismal environment of employees working in cubicle farms and how it contributed to annual employee turnover of around 50 percent. To help employees learn and grow, SAS encourages participation in industry conferences.

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Why the Health of Your Doctor Matters

Michael Lee Stallard

Jones’ practical advice to fellow medical personnel based on his own journey includes these exhortations: “Take some time to remember what led you to choose medicine as a career and develop a way to tap into that meaning. It seems easy for that to get lost in day-to-day minutiae.”

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