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The Anxiety of Learning

Michael Lee Stallard

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit The Anxiety of Learning Published by Michael Lee Stallard on July 7, 2010 03:21 am under knowledge flow Here’s a link to a brilliant interview of Edgar Schein entitled “ The Anxiety of Learning.&# why is everyone smiling?

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 4/29/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Customer CEO: How to Profit from the Power of Your Customers Chuck Wall The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself John Jantsch Disney U : How Disney University Develops the World’s Most Engaged, Loyal, [.].

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Book Reviews and My Recommended Reading List

The Practical Leader

In the past few months I’ve been asked by workshop participants and readers for my recommendations on organization improvement, leadership, or personal development books. I have read about 30 leadership books including Maxwell, Kouzes & Posner, Kotter, and Schein. The theme is Executive global leadership.

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Benefits of Debriefing

Strategy Driven

It is vital to develop the capacity to learn from your environment. Fifth, once root causes are identified, an actionable and specific lesson learned is developed. It may require further development of a plan or program to address the root cause. Debriefing also supports the development of better leaders and more cohesive teams.

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How to Give Negative Feedback When Your Organization Is “Nice”

Harvard Business Review

I was meeting with a client last week, the CEO of a global asset management firm. Building candor and feedback into any culture is challenging, but this CEO had a particularly difficult set of issues to address because the predominant descriptors of his current culture are nice, respectful, cordial, warm, relationship-focused, and calm.