Michael Lee Stallard

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Assessing Ballmer’s Leadership

Michael Lee Stallard

An excellent book that examines and promotes integrative thinkers as CEOs is Roger Martin’s The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking. Some years ago I gave a presentation on Connection Cultures at the Innovation Council.

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The Flawed “Customer First” Focus (and Other Management Practices to Question)

Michael Lee Stallard

“It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.” – Will Rogers. In his latest book, Under New Management , David Burkus challenges a number of conventional business practices.

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Courage, Connection and the Flow of Ideas

Michael Lee Stallard

Will Rogers, a friend and E Pluribus Partners colleague, joined me for the conference and we greatly enjoyed meeting the many people who stopped by our exhibition booth. Ashley McDonald, Associate Editor at ASTD, worked with her on editing the book which was published this spring.