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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

I have read about 30 leadership books including Maxwell, Kouzes & Posner, Kotter, and Schein. I have read a few of the books from CEOs or Ex-CEOs who have transformed American companies. I was wondering if there are any other books you could particularly recommend. These have left me pretty cold.”

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

Harvard Business Review

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.” “Deep down, many of us believe that if you are not winning, you are losing,” Schein warns. .

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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. ” Another McKinsey alum, Robin Richards, chair and CEO of the CareerArc Group, makes it clear how he wants his colleagues to behave.

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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?” Mark McKenzie, the CEO of Senior Care Centers, a large skilled nursing company in Texas, often asks, “Why are we doing it this way?”

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Benefits of Debriefing

Strategy Driven

Edgar Schein, perhaps the most respected scholar on organizational culture, states that “… culture is the result of a complex group learning process.” ‘Murph’ Murphy, the Founder & CEO of Afterburner, Inc., We want to accelerate the learning experience, get our people up that learning curve faster. About the Authors.