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SkillSoft to Film Videos on Employee Engagement, Strategic Alignment

Michael Lee Stallard

Jason Pankau and I are excited about this opportunity to work with yet another world-class partner to take our work and ideas on The Connection Culture from our book Fired Up or Burned Out to a new audience. Organizations today are in desperate need of improving employee engagement and strategic alignment. why is everyone smiling?

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Want To Be The Best? Study Pixar. | Rich Gee Group

Rich Gee Group

Most of their films take three years to make. So I have a present for you this new year — a young Brazilian filmmaker spent 11 days watching Pixar’s assorted films, painstakingly selecting the more than 500 clips that make up this touching ode to the house that Toy Story built. They’ve never missed. All the time.

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Pixar’s Competitive Advantage? A Connection Culture

Michael Lee Stallard

In most organizations only 25 percent of employees – the managers and the stars — feel included. Typically, the overwhelming majority of employees feel that senior management does not value them or their contributions. Employees can take up to four hours of classes each week. Not so at Pixar.

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How To Achieve Constant Learning By Breaking Free From Chronic Performance

Eric Jacobson

Among the many techniques Briceño teaches, the book also offers four tips for helping your team continuously advance their skills, even when it feels like there’s no time to problem solve: Why most managers often misuse praise—and what you should do instead to help your team improve.

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The Signs Of Provocative Leadership

Lead Change Blog

I was recently in a meeting with the leadership development director of a large manufacturing company. The topic was the company’s leadership development training program. Participants sit through classes chock full of models and instruments with a few clever games thrown in and come out a trained leader.

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Innovation at Bell Labs

Leading Blog

(My first encounter with Bells Labs was like many school aged kids in the sixties, through their series of science films — Hemo the Magnificent , Our Mr. Sun , Gateways to the Mind and others. A great way to spend an hour in science class.) It was Pierce that suggested the calling the new device of 1947 a transistor.

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Business Leadership Expertise: Give a Gift of Honoring :: Women on.

Women on Business

Strong yet Others are from books, films and politics. For me it was a first grade teacher who challenged me to take an art project some “annoying boy” in my class had scribbled on and find a way to make it work. Many of the women who shaped us were in our families, mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, neighbors, and teachers.