Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 21, 2011

Its annual employee turnover rate of approximately four percent — versus the typical 20 percent experienced by companies in the software industry – provides additional data that support Goodnight’s approach. To help employees learn and grow, SAS encourages participation in industry conferences.

Software 287

Software Conference Long-term Entrepreneur 287

Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Changing Cultures to Promote Connection. The decades-old push for productivity in organizations has had unintended consequences. Workloads in most professions have increased at a time when attitudes have changed to effectively squeeze out time to connect with colleagues.

Mayo 150

Mayo Participative Servant Leader Banking 150

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 18, 2010

Its annual employee turnover rate of approximately four percent — versus the typical 20 percent experienced by companies in the software industry – provides additional data that support Goodnight’s approach. To help employees learn and grow, SAS encourages participation in industry conferences. Engagement and strategy.

Conference 261

Conference Bottom-up Software Long-term 261

Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 18, 2012

We most recently made the case for Connection Cultures in “ The Science of Engagement ” that appeared in the Spring edition of Training Industry Quarterly. Creating Connection Cultures in organizations to achieve “relationship excellence” is wise.

Conference 329

Conference Training Open-book Article 329

Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 11, 2016

Ann and I wanted to learn how ABC News stays at the top of its game as a leader in an extremely competitive, demanding industry. Recently, I sat down with Zach Toback, Vice President, News and Non-Fiction Production & Studio Operation at ABC News in New York City and Ann Louden, Director of the TCU Center for Connection Culture.

Competitive Advantage 150

Competitive Advantage Committee Storytelling Open-book 150

Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 15, 2010

It should be a wake up call to leaders in other industries too. In the current economic downturn and shakeout that will result, leaders will need the best environments in order to survive. Pixar’s example has awakened Hollywood’s leaders from their slumber.

Competitive Advantage 395

Competitive Advantage Environment Class Wilde 395

Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

Focusing on being the best, rather than the biggest, ended up making Varsity Spirit the biggest industry player over time, and has kept them growing ever since. He told me that from the beginning of Varsity Spirit, the attitude has been to provide the best experience for the young athletes Varsity Spirit serves rather than to be the biggest.

Development 150

Development Team Sports Apparel 150

Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 8, 2018

I wasn’t consciously aware of the stress-connection gap I was enduring until I had left the financial services industry and was focusing on helping my wife, Katie, survive advanced ovarian cancer, an experience I wrote about in Alone No Longer.

Stress 207

Stress Report Engineering Bottom-up 207

Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 6, 2016

In 1983 Royal Dutch/Shell Group studied 27 companies that had survived more than 100 years, were still important in their industries, and continued to have strong corporate identities. What makes an organization sufficiently resilient to survive over a sustained period of time?

Short-term 150

Short-term Long-term Competitive Advantage Chemicals 150

Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 23, 2014

The character values, or blocks of the pyramid, included industriousness, enthusiasm, friendship, loyalty, cooperation, self-control, alertness, initiative, intentness, condition, skill, and team spirit. Integral to meeting his standards was achieving the character values reflected in what he called “the Pyramid of Success.”

Leadership 287

Leadership Follow-up Sports Hotels 287

Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 5, 2019

That said, there is a related piece that needs to be addressed: Healthcare is an industry that desperately needs to improve the cultures of its organizations, big and small. The high rate of physician burnout and suicide are signs that the cultures in many healthcare organizations are not healthy cultures of connection.

P&L 150

P&L Stress Self-aware Human Needs 150

Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 10, 2016

The Ritz-Carlton’s integrity has contributed to the organization receiving all the major awards bestowed by the hospitality industry and leading consumer organizations. Result: These practices help maintain a high level of organizational integrity because employees know Ritz-Carton’s values and are more likely to apply them.

Servant Leader 150

Servant Leader Ethics Hotels Follow-up 150

Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 5, 2010

I know what I’m describing is the antithesis of the free-agency practices that prevail in the movie industry, but that’s the point: I believe that community matters.” Does Catmull’s description fit your organization? If not, why don’t you become a catalyst for change.

Competitive Advantage 186

Competitive Advantage McCarthy Godin Definition 186

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2010

The character values, or blocks of the pyramid, were: industriousness, enthusiasm, friendship, loyalty, cooperation, self-control, alertness, initiative, intentness, condition, skill, and team spirit. .&# Integral to meeting his standards was achieving the character values reflected in what he called “the Pyramid of Success.”

Follow-up 360

Follow-up Open-book Learning-by-Doing Hotels 360

Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 17, 2010

Seligman Wisdom and knowledge – cognitive strengths that entail the acquisition and use of knowledge Creativity (originality, ingenuity): thinking of novel and productive ways to conceptualize and do things; includes artistic achievement but is not limited to it Curiosity (interest, novelty-seeking, openness to experience): taking an interest in ongoing (..)

Self-aware 278

Self-aware Teamwork Open-book Emotional Intelligence 278

Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 30, 2010

These executives, bankers and hedge fund managers who took over the once proud manufacturing industry in America and broke it up, outsourced the work or shipped entire factories offshore for obscene profits while destroying the lives of millions of employees don’t need happy coaches. Remember “smile or your fired”.

Organization 186

Organization Outsourcing Leadership Hedge 186

Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

At the 2015 World Business Forum in New York City, Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini laid out the most important vision at the conference: a vision to save healthcare. Bertolini’s message is that healthcare is broken and that he is committed to fixing it. Although his vision will be difficult to achieve, his resolve and thoughtfulness is evident.

CEO 150

CEO Servant Leader Greenleaf Leadership 150

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 27, 2016

Marshall’s awareness that Hitler was building a huge military industrial complex led him to warn of the Nazi threat and America’s vulnerability. [became] an authority on Chinese civilization, history, and language. and was] the only American officer who could examine Chinese witnesses without the aid of interpreters.”

Ryan 186

Ryan Career Competitive Advantage Health Care 186

Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 6, 2012

Training Industry Quarterly magazine invited me to write an article on the science of connection. .” I will never ever forget those words coming from a leader who lived them out over her long and storied career. Here are a couple updates on some things I’m doing and what I’ve noticed of interest in the media.

Article 170

Article Media Creativity Handbook 170

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 28, 2010

Marshall’s awareness that Hitler was building a huge military industrial complex led him to warn of the Nazi threat and America’s vulnerability. [became] an authority on Chinese civilization, history, and language. and was] the only American officer who could examine Chinese witnesses without the aid of interpreters.”

Ryan 220

Ryan Learning-by-Doing Career Magazine 220

Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 10, 2010

Over a business cycle, SAS’s employee turnover in the low single digits is a fraction of the software industry’s that at times reaches into the mid-20 percent plus range. For every job opening, SAS receives 100 or more resumes.

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Collins Open-book McCarthy Software 207