Michael Lee Stallard

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Lead Like a U.S. Marine

Michael Lee Stallard

This requires a goal-oriented approach. A leader must identify long-term goals for the team and the short-term steps the organization needs to take to achieve those goals. Marine leaders know that while getting the job done is essential, the wellbeing of troops is also vital to long-term success.

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Hope Is What People Need from Leaders Today

Michael Lee Stallard

In the current environment, you’ll need to do more than present the goals and expect execution. Brooks differentiated the terms this way in an article in The Atlantic : “Optimism is the belief that things will turn out all right; hope makes no such assumption but is a conviction that one can act to make things better in some way.”

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What Disengaged Employees Would Say to the Boss (If They Could Be Honest)

Michael Lee Stallard

Include us in goal setting. You work hard to set our department’s annual goals and achieve them. We want you to include us in planning our department’s goals. Share what you have in mind in terms of goals for our department, and then have the humility to ask us what’s right, what’s wrong and what’s missing from your thinking.

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What CEOs Can Learn from Alcoholics Anonymous

Michael Lee Stallard

Another way to think of it is that the future pain of not changing will far outweigh the short-term pain required to change. AA encourages a patient, problem-solving process by allowing members to take gradual steps toward the goal of sobriety. Don’t expect a short-term quick fix.

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Thriving Through the Ongoing Pandemic

Michael Lee Stallard

In March 2020, we had hoped this race to extinguish the coronavirus would be a short-distance sprint, yet it has become a long-distance marathon. This is a good time to be laser-focused on identifying, or re-evaluating, your top 3-5 priorities for the year and making progress toward achieving those goals. Again, pace yourself.

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4 Steps to Improve Quality and Safety

Michael Lee Stallard

When relationships in the workplace are not excellent, people don’t give their best efforts, they don’t align their behavior with the team’s goals, they don’t communicate or collaborate as well as they should, and they tend not to make the effort to be creative and innovate. This failure sabotages task excellence every time.

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Overcoming Leadership Myopia

Michael Lee Stallard

The report went on to show this has been a long-term downward trend rather than a temporary decline due to the Great Recession. They may be successful for a short time but eventually they will fail.