Michael Lee Stallard

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Great Resource for Personal Strategic Thinking and Planning

Michael Lee Stallard

This year, rather than reading Drucker, I read Create Your Future the Peter Drucker Way: Developing and Applying a Forward Focused Mindset by Bruce Rosenstein. The author is an expert on Drucker and author of Living in More Than One World: How Peter Drucker’s Wisdom Can Inspire and Transform Your Life.

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3 Practices CEOs Can Learn from the Girl Scouts

Michael Lee Stallard

During her twenty-four-year tenure, Girl Scout membership quadrupled to nearly three and a half million, diversity more than tripled, and the organization was transformed into what Peter Drucker described as “the best-managed organization around.”

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Burnout Results From Living in Conflict with Values

Michael Lee Stallard

That young man, Peter Drucker, left his well-paying job and went on to become the father of management consulting. In “ How Peter Drucker Changed My Life &# I wrote about how Drucker’s writings affected my own career decisions.

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4 Reasons to Lead with Questions

Michael Lee Stallard

Another worthwhile resource is Peter Drucker’s 5 Most Important Questions by Peter Drucker, Frances Hesselbein and Joan Snyder Kuhl. Drucker’s questions are as follows: What is our mission? And what else? What’s the real challenge here for you? What do you want? How can I help? Who is our customer? What does the customer value?

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3 Ways to Encourage Knowledge Flow

Michael Lee Stallard

I like the term Peter Drucker once gave the contributions of educated employees who shared an opposing point of view. Ask people to be inquisitive. Better-informed employees are more likely to identify critical pieces of information to solve business problems and spot opportunities. He called it “informed dissent.”

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6 Ways Leaders Can Dial up the Level of Value in the Workplace

Michael Lee Stallard

Decentralization gained momentum when Peter Drucker persuaded Alfred P. Allowing people to make decisions shows them that you respect their abilities and judgment and that you value them. Many firms over the last hundred years decentralized decision making. to decentralize decision making at General Motors Corporation.

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US Navy and U2: What Connection?

Michael Lee Stallard

The Leader to Leader Institute was founded by the late Peter Drucker and is headed by Frances Hesselbein , two individuals whom Jason and I respect and admire for their competence, character and positive contributions to society. Here is a link to the article entitled “ To Boost Performance, Connect with the Core.&#

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