Michael Lee Stallard

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Michael Jordan’s Transformation Contributed to His Success

Michael Lee Stallard

What can we learn from his success? As the strength of relationships among the team improved, the Bulls’ success rose to a new level. Over the course of eight years, the Chicago Bulls won six championship titles. This is a powerful combination that is essential to successful leadership. Photo Credit: Diegoestefano97.

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Hope Is What People Need from Leaders Today

Michael Lee Stallard

As to the impact of hope, Brooks noted: “In a report in The Journal of Positive Psychology in 2013, researchers defining hope as ‘having the will and finding the way’ found that high-hope employees are 28 percent more likely to be successful at work and 44 percent more likely to enjoy good health and well-being.”.

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Healing Our Workplaces through Cultures of Connection

Michael Lee Stallard

We cannot be successful in the other pillars without this underlying culture of connection (italics ours). Assess program effectiveness, identify barriers to success, and facilitate continuous quality improvement. These shared beliefs and values drive our individual and collective behaviors that then shape programs and policies.

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Malcolm Gladwell, Atul Gawande on Connection

Michael Lee Stallard

I’ve previously written about Ken Auletta’s masterpiece “ The Howell Doctrine ,” and, of course, there’s Jim Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds. In Malcolm Gladwell’s most recent book, Outliers: The Story of Success , connection is a theme throughout.

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Preparing for Re-entry into the Physical Workplace: Lessons from NASA

Michael Lee Stallard

Astronaut crews living and working in space experience as a matter of course what many of us experienced unexpectedly during the SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic. NASA knows that a person’s level of connection affects his or her well-being and performance, and that individual and collective connection is critical to a mission’s success.

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Why We Work Hard and Persevere

Michael Lee Stallard

No ship, department, or division is successful as a one-man show. Teamwork is the key to success. The keys to success are establishing enough backups so that we don’t make a critical mistake, and recognizing and learning from the mistakes that we do make. It is not how many times you fall that will determine your success.

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3 Surprising Ways to Succeed in Self-Leadership

Michael Lee Stallard

It’s ironic that successful self-leadership has more to do with others and less to do with self. Following are three lessons I learned from personal and professional experiences over the course of my life. My hope is that they will help you be more successful over your career and journey in life. I learned this later in life.