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Antidote for Widespread Employee Discontent

Michael Lee Stallard

Connection, because it meets our human needs, makes people more trusting, more cooperative, more empathetic, more enthusiastic, more optimistic, more energetic, more creative and better problem solvers. The openness that emerges in a trusting and cooperative environment creates a robust marketplace of ideas that stimulates innovation.

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Courage, Connection and the Flow of Ideas

Michael Lee Stallard

James Fenimore Cooper, while writing in Paris, visited the Louvre every afternoon to speak words of encouragement that would help his friend, Samuel F.B. Lisa is editor of the ASTD Management Development Handbook. Making Education Brain Scienceā€ about the innovative Blue School in Manhattan.