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Many Ways to Connect

Michael Lee Stallard

This last week I was in Boston for several meetings and to teach a seminar for the Institute for Management Studies (IMS). As I travel, I’ll post new things I learn about connection. In subsequent meetings, Ms. Dole was very good at remembering and mentioned the significant fact when she saw the individual.

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Memorial Day Leadership Lessons

N2Growth Blog

I left my son’s graduation in Florida on Sunday evening headed for Dallas and then traveling on to San Antonio. There are many so-called management gurus in today’s politically correct world who would take great exception to what I’m putting forth in today’s post. link] Gordon R. Thanks Mark.

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Worn out at Work? Twelve Common Workplace Behaviors that Drain Everyone’s Energy – and How to Purge Them in 2011, part 2 of 2

Strategy Driven

Soup : A Recipe to Nourish Your Team and Culture by Jon Gordon. A big part of a successful culture is having a relationship between employees and managers that is built on trust and collaboration. Most managers and business leaders would agree that they feel a lot of pressure. The Disorganization Drag-Down.

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Worn out at Work? Twelve Common Workplace Behaviors that Drain Everyone’s Energy – and How to Purge Them in 2011, part 2 of 2

Strategy Driven

Soup : A Recipe to Nourish Your Team and Culture by Jon Gordon. A big part of a successful culture is having a relationship between employees and managers that is built on trust and collaboration. Most managers and business leaders would agree that they feel a lot of pressure. The Disorganization Drag-Down.

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To Change Your Strategy, First Change How You Think

Harvard Business Review

From the start, Southwest cofounder Herb Kelleher saw his competition not as other airlines but as alternative forms of transportation, whether cars, buses, or trains. Therefore his mental model was not how to gain market share from other airlines, but how to create a completely new market for air travel. All of these efforts failed.

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Build STEM Skills, but Don’t Neglect the Humanities

Harvard Business Review

Instead of just STEM, we should perhaps be promoting STEMMA — raising a new generation that also has greater capacities for managing collective human endeavors and appreciating the arts. To read more posts related to the theme of Claiming Our Humanity–Managing in the Digital Age, visit the Drucker Forum’s blog.

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Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Deming Institute

Edwards Deming Institute [The Institute makes 5 travel grants available each year to study the Deming Collection at the Library of Congress. Fortunately, I received the grant and was able to travel to the US to the study Deming’s papers at the Library of Congress in Washington DC. Stephen Gordon CEO Opus Bank.

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