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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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If Humility Is So Important, Why Are Leaders So Arrogant?

Harvard Business Review

A recent management column in the Wall Street Journal appeared under the appealing headline, “The Best Bosses Are Humbles Bosses.” Tesla CEO Elon Musk may be the most visible, influential, high-impact leader in Silicon Valley, yet it’s hard to imagine anyone with less “modesty” or “unpretentiousness.”

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Book Reviews and My Recommended Reading List

The Practical Leader

One example was an e-mail from a manager at the American Society of Training and Development: “We are building our reference list for the ASTD Forum Lab in India in October. I have read about 30 leadership books including Maxwell, Kouzes & Posner, Kotter, and Schein. The theme is Executive global leadership.

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True Leaders Believe Dissent Is an Obligation

Harvard Business Review

I first encountered the term last year, in an intriguing interview with a CEO named Victor Ho, cofounder of a customer loyalty company that has raised more than $100 million in venture funding. A biography of Bower describes the first encounter between the larger-than-life leader and Fred Gluck, a former managing director of the firm.

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3 Questions Executives Should Ask Front-Line Workers

Harvard Business Review

Doug Conant, while he was CEO of Campbell Soup Company, knew that if he was going to transform the company culture, he had to ask the simple question, “How can I help you?” He asked it continually of his employees, his suppliers, and his customers—and he demanded that each of his managers do the same too.

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Benefits of Debriefing

Strategy Driven

Information overload is the management crisis of the 21stcentury. John Kotter, the renowned scholar on change management, suggests that successful change requires management to create opportunities for ‘short term wins,’ thereby repetitively reinforcing positive steps along the path to change. But how is this done?