Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Today began with a drive East from my home in Connecticut to Saul Kaplan’s wonderful Business Innovation Factory Conference (called “BIF-6″) in Providence, Rhode Island. Driving into the sunrise on this sunny, clear day with a hint of Fall in the air was simply stunning.

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 26, 2015

Leadership is an interactive conversation that pulls people toward becoming comfortable with the language of personal responsibility and commitment. . Source: Robert Steven Kaplan: What You Really Need to Lead: The Power of Thinking and Acting Like an Owner. It involves a process of learning and being open to adapting your behaviors.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 13, 2011

Levers of Organization Design: How Managers Use Accountability Systems for Greater Performance and Commitment Robert Simons Harvard Business Press (2005) Eloquent and Essential Practicality Unlike subtitles of so many other recently published business books, the one for Levers of Organization Design correctly identifies its author’s primary objective: (..)

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

It's when it becomes an obsession that it's a problem," says Robert Steven Kaplan, a Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School and author of What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential. No one loves to do things just adequately," says Kaplan.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

While most for-profit companies start with product and then subsequently segment customers based on profit potential (higher lifetime value and lower acquisition costs), the most successful nonprofits commit first to reaching an underserved population, which often includes higher acquisition costs and lower lifetime value.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

What we haven't figured out is how to align work with personal passion and commitment. Leveraging game mechanics can unleash passion, potential, and personal commitment. Saul Kaplan is the Founder and Chief Catalyst of the Business Innovation Factory (BIF). We volunteer to enter their fray. Follow him on Twitter at @skap5.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Kaplan and Michael E. The results are often surprising; for example in the pilot project described in Kaplan’s and Porter’s 2011 HBR article , one finding was that most providers’ existing cost systems underestimate the cost of new patient evaluation services by 15% to 20%.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

” This passion gap is important because “passionate workers are committed to continually achieving higher levels of performance.” ” If passion plays an important role in the potential and high performance of others, how does a leader develop others toward their passions?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

But the experience seems to have made him even more committed. Whatever the issue, make a commitment to do something about it in the next week. After bouncing the concept off of several industry CEOs, but still unsure whether he could pull it off, last summer Dirk began to recruit speakers for what he called a Provocation Summit.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

These students constitute a network with deep roots in the community and deep commitment to it. Saul Kaplan is the Founder and Chief Catalyst of the Business Innovation Factory (BIF). This really hit me during that class session at the University of Kentucky. When I asked, "How many of you are from Kentucky?"

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

It's tempting for those of us strongly committed to developing leadership strengths to ignore such dissent on the grounds that any new practice will attract critics. Kaplan and Kaiser similarly described how either "forceful" or "enabling" behaviors could be taken too far and have negative consequences.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

It's tempting for those of us strongly committed to developing leadership strengths to ignore such dissent on the grounds that any new practice will attract critics. Kaplan and Kaiser similarly described how either "forceful" or "enabling" behaviors could be taken too far and have negative consequences.

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Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Sam Gilman and Andrew Kaplan , college juniors started Common Sense Action in 2012 with one chapter. We tried to live the example that we wished Congress followed: we had made a commitment to ourselves, to each other, and to our chapters to craft an agenda by working together across difference. Well, it''s happening.

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