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Many Ways to Connect

Michael Lee Stallard

David Gill, a professor at Gordon Conwell College, told me that we connect with the Divine when we “help people fulfill their dreams or overcome their nightmares.” (We also connect with others when our organization’s mission accomplishes these ends.). As I travel, I’ll post new things I learn about connection.

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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. link] Gordon R. link] mikemyatt Hi Gordon: Thanks for your well wishes Gordon. We spent the afternoon at a family celebration for my nephew who ships out for Naval training tomorrow. 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. If you’re managing or leading a company, heading up a big project, or traveling non-stop, it’s likely you’ve lost an email, important paper, phone number, or pie chart or two (or three or four) in your day. The Disorganization Drag-Down. About the Author.

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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. If you’re managing or leading a company, heading up a big project, or traveling non-stop, it’s likely you’ve lost an email, important paper, phone number, or pie chart or two (or three or four) in your day. The Disorganization Drag-Down. About the Author.

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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

All the brilliant discoveries of STEM will not solve the grand challenges of today’s world — ignorance, poverty, intolerance, and political conflict – without the practical wisdom of humanities-trained leaders. Let me illustrate my point.

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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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