Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 9, 2010

For Tom Peters influence in my life, I am sincerely grateful. Other good things that happened this week: Jurgen Noop from the Netherlands recognized my blog as one of the top leadership and management blogs. Yesterday, I spoke at an organizational development network conference on Long Island. Many thanks, Jurgen!

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QAspire

AUGUST 1, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Excellence: Lessons From Anupam Kher I have believed that most good things in life are either free or inexpensive. A good walk, a great hug, a few moments spent together, a long drive, a free lecture, time spent with friends and so on. Ivana Sendecka´s last blog.

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QAspire

AUGUST 10, 2010

As always a good lesson to learn from Tanmay at his best! Merely trying to delight customers when your core offering does not solve their real problems is an effort in vain. Thanks for sharing. Regards, Jay Chhaya By Tanmay , August 11, 2010 @ 10:27 am @Jay - Thanks Jay. Glad you liked the post!

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The Recovering Engineer

JANUARY 11, 2011

We have blogging and promotional partners who will be helping us to get the word out around February 15 when the book becomes officially available. We have our families who have tolerated the long-hours of travel, phone calls, blog posts, article writing, meetings, and website development it takes to get a book written, published, and sold.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 17, 2011

Main | What Leaders Can Learn About Speaking from Martin Luther King » January 17, 2011 Four Steps for Making Better Decisions A friend recently gave me a copy of a new book that’s out now, The Price of Everything by Eduardo Porter.    As someone who loved taking economics in college ( Thank you Dr. . 

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CO2

JANUARY 4, 2011

I have known Sid most of my life. He never choose to judge you and listened deeply and then he was “The Great Asker&# of questions, he then shared his insights based on his learning and experience. It is remarkable how long it takes to stick a penny, fold, stuff, stamp and send a letter. He was a master story teller.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

This has gone on for years, but the latest reason why is Diane and her blog on cooking gluten and dairy free. She started the blog a couple of years ago when she learned from her doctor that food intolerances were the source of a host of health hassles that she had experienced for years. He can’t eat. He can’t talk. He can cook.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Because his LeadershipFreak blog is one of the hottest, fastest growing blogs in the leadership world, and we’re proud to have him as a nominee for the Best Leadership Blogs event. Purposeful Abandonment by Dan Rockwell Not long ago, in frustration, a friend of mine quit his job. Learn from it.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 8, 2010

They write and teach what they learn. Learning is as much a part of their life as eating. These are a few of my favorite quotes that illustrate the importance of learning: In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. Eric Hoffer Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

If they’re like a lot of leadership teams I’ve worked with, they’re going to be long on facts and analysis and short on generating alternatives and considering the impact of their decisions. What have we learned from experience?  What are we trying to do in the long run?    What data do we have?

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

It wasn’t long after Michaels arrival that he was impressing his co-workers by offering $100 to a waitress at the nearby InterContinental Hotel to expose herself. So, with the new handbook in place, it wasn’t long before Michaels and another senior exec were heard on an open balcony loudly rating the hotness of various female employees.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

It doesn't take long these days. When Netflix came along with their monthly fee, keep the movie as long as you want approach, we were happy to sign up for nine dollars a month because we were coming out ahead on the deal. Fast Company ran a fascinating chronology of events in the life of Blockbuster this week. They passed.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

  It's the cleanest, most open, quietest airport I've been in in a long time.  With a six hour time change and 18 hours of travel, it had been a long day but not a stressful one.    When you think about it, it's really not that hard to incorporate courtesy and consideration into everyday life. 

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Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Five Reasons Stories are a Powerful Communication Tool by Kevin Eikenberry on October 11, 2010 in Leadership , Leadership Communication , Learning We all grow up with stories. Stories are everywhere!

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 19, 2011

What he spent most of his time talking with us about is his life list. Early in his life, Ted started making a list of the things he wanted to do. Change someone’s life via a charity. He has spent his life making lists of what he wants to accomplish.    We can all, however, have a life list. 

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Next Level Blog

JULY 12, 2010

Apparently, Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert thought the same thing because it wasn’t long before he had posted a scathing open letter to the Cavs’ fans on the team’s official web site. Unless you’re a New York Yankees fan or a long time lover of baseball, you may not have heard of him.  Once again, classless.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 7, 2010

As reported in the New York Times , there was a long photo op, an extended one on one between the two, a lunch and, when the visit was finished, Obama walked the prime minister to his limo. Subscribe to Blog Updates via Email or RSS Chart Your Course in 2011 with a Life GPS® Interactive Program Details Here Join me for the.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Do you have the challenge of slowing down long enough to really think about what you’re saying and giving others space to think? Subscribe to Blog Updates via Email or RSS Chart Your Course in 2011 with a Life GPS® Interactive Program Details Here Join me for the.   What do you think you’d find in translation?

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Kevin Eikenberry

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe The Power of Now! by Kevin Eikenberry on September 1, 2010 in Leadership , Learning , Manage Projects Every leader I talk with, coach or train tell me the same thing. They are balancing home and work life.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 21, 2010

Main | Video Book Club: The Discipline of Market Leaders » June 21, 2010 What Am I Supposed To Be Learning From This? A long time ago in a land far away, I worked for a year as a first year associate in a now defunct Wall Street investment bank. What did I learn? You just need to stay in learning mode.

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The Recovering Engineer

OCTOBER 29, 2010

When you are communicating with… …an outgoing, task-oriented, Dominant style person : Speak slowly Tell really long-stories Give them lots of details they didn’t ask for Avoid anything that even remotely resembles a decision or results-focused action. Learn More… What Do You Think? It’s fun and easy to do.

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Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Do You Have a Balanced Reading (and Learning) Diet? He wrote a short blog post then challenged me via Facebook to do something with it. As it is with our reading. Now consider these questions.

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CO2

AUGUST 2, 2010

Ed Flaherty founded Applebees, Rapid Oil and author of Coached For Life , to name a few of his achievements. It kept him on a winning edge so that he would never let up and keep growing, learning and progressing. Average is not good enough for me – how about for you? He said, ‘it fits his personality of being an achiever.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 4, 2010

It’s about a former IBM senior executive named Robert Moffat whose long and successful career with the company ended when he was arrested by the FBI for conspiracy related to insider trading. The arrest was a complete surprise to Moffat and everyone who knew him. So, what do you do to avoid a conversation like that? You’ll be glad you did. 

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Kevin Eikenberry

AUGUST 24, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Leadership Lagniappe by Kevin Eikenberry on August 24, 2010 in Decision Making , Leadership Lagniappe (pronounced LAN-yap ). Since I first learned the word in college it has intrgued me. We must be .

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Reid talk about what he learned in writing his book about health care, The Healing of America. Reid travelled around the world twice – once on his publisher’s dime and again to film a documentary for PBS – to learn about how health care is delivered in different countries. All he did was share with us what he learned.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

  How long term is your perspective?  She has allowed me to try new things in our organization and has been gracious enough to allow me to learn from my mistakes.   He asked the first man what he was doing and the man said, "I am engaged in the daily drudgery of smashing large rocks into smaller rocks.

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The Recovering Engineer

JUNE 3, 2010

In other words, you can only resist so long before you “run out&# of self-control. So, what does this observation have to do with this blog? Rather, I suggest understanding the behavior and then making plans that recognized the reality of life instead of wishing that things were different. Get updates in an RSS reader.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

Subscribe to Blog Updates via Email or RSS Chart Your Course in 2011 with a Life GPS® Interactive Program Details Here Join me for the. The Next Level Blog is where he shares "news you can use" to raise your leadership game.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 28, 2010

I grew up in West Virginia, worked for one of its governors and am a student of politics so I watched Senator Byrd in action for most of my life. He made it his job to learn and master the nuances of his working environment. Will he be remembered for a long time to come in West Virginia? Byrd something or other. Probably not.

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The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Did you just learn that you need to invest money you don’t have to repair your car? The issue is the potential to sow the seed of a pattern of decision making that could have a long-term negative impact on your relationships and performance. Learn More… What Do You Think? If so, be careful. Tell me what youre thinking.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Watching live coverage of the rescue of the Chilean mine workers over the past two days stirred those memories from long ago. Last month, I wrote a post on What We Can Learn About Leadership from the Chilean Miners. There are leadership lessons to learn from the rescuers as well.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 19, 2010

If you're still with me after that long sentence, I'll fess up that that has happened to me lately. So, those are two Bobs that I'm trying to learn from. What have you been learning lately about moving beyond I to We? Part of the reason why I retweet your blog posts is because I don't want to recreate this stuff.

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The Recovering Engineer

JULY 23, 2010

They feel stress, frustration, or irritation in one area of their life or in one relationship, and they vent it in a different area of their life or in a different relationship. And, can’t we learn a lesson from Merlin? He has spent many years learning to connect and communicate with other people more effectively.

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QAspire

AUGUST 26, 2010

To complement this effort, give them the URL’s of some of the best leadership blogs out there. Induction training like these are a small investment that go a long way in setting the precedence and ensuring that you find right channels to effectively transfer your strategy/values to all layers within the organization.

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Kevin Eikenberry

AUGUST 23, 2010

But, are those the salespeople that create long term success for themselves and their Customers? They strive to support and improve the lives of those they sell to, knowing when they do they have created a Customer for life. When you sum up the other four points above you come up with influence. Not at all.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

  Listen, ask, watch and learn.  Subscribe to Blog Updates via Email or RSS Chart Your Course in 2011 with a Life GPS® Interactive Program Details Here Join me for the.   The group had flown in from around the world and the topic was how to lead at the next level.  What about you? 

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