Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

According to Julie Winkle Giulioni of DesignArounds , effective leaders leverage the very human need for mutual respect and in the process build productive relationships, enhance employee engagement and deliver powerful business outcomes. Follow Julie. Follow John.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 20, 2020

The novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the need for social distancing, quarantine and isolation so that vulnerable individuals are not exposed to the virus and healthcare systems are not overwhelmed. A lack of sufficient connection is dangerous because social connection is a primal human need.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Health is a system you cannot hack. It is a system that needs careful attention to all its parts working well together. Daniel Goleman on Three Kinds of Focus Leaders Need. Revisiting: The Basic Human Needs For Engagement. Service is the highest form of self-expression. Leaders: Facilitators of Greatness.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 28, 2016

One contributor to the continued success of Toyota Motor Company and its Lexus Luxury Division is the higher quality and lower cost benefits resulting from the Toyota Production System. Recognize the human need for work/life balance. Finally, we all have times when things outside work require our undivided attention.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Why did I need to keep saying it then?” ” Last week I wrote about our basic human need to be appreciated and recognized. Numerous managers realize that need and at least try to provide some sort of recognition. “I married her, didn’t I? Obviously, I loved her.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 26, 2019

From a biological standpoint, social connection is a primal human need. Its presence appears to improve the cardiovascular, endocrine and immune systems’ performance. In measured amounts, stress serves to ready the nervous system for the task at hand. Here, odd as it sounds, stress can be a good thing.

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CO2

MAY 6, 2014

Today, RIM (the maker of the BlackBerry) is suffering in the marketplace because Apple (and their iDevices) and Google (with the Android operating system) innovated by taking risks. The real secret lies in the deeply human need to direct our own lives, learn and create, and better ourselves and our world.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 30, 2010

Political, social and economic cultures that have been sustained for long periods of time have these values and systems that don’t (i.e. coercive utopian systems such as communism and fascism), fail because the values they promote work against human flourishing.

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Leading with Trust

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

As I mentioned previously, one of our core psychological needs is autonomy. In her book, Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work…and What Does , my friend and colleague, Susan Fowler, says “ Autonomy is our human need to perceive we have choices. It is our need to feel that what we are doing is of our own volition.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JULY 10, 2011

2. With the combined use of 5-acres of photovoltaic solar cells and a thermal heat storage system , Houweling’s generates 2.1 3. In combination, these two power generation systems have reduced the grower’s CO2 emissions by 16.9 Water that was previously washed away is now treated and re-circulated to the crops. April 2011.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

All humans need to feel appreciated. The Service First Video Library is a powerful video-based training system making it easy to train any number of employees – with no limits – with immediate results. Customer Service Training Video Library. Train your entire workforce in the art of exceptional customer service.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 11, 2011

Firstly, by facilitating all aspects of Apple’s hardware and pre-installing its own operating system, he secured sustainable competitive insularity. 5 principles of simplicity via @ matthewemay [link] Humans need a reminder RT @ hunterwalk Good design teaches. A better-known and much larger example is the Apple turnaround.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

All humans need to feel appreciated. The Service First Video Library is a powerful video-based training system making it easy to train any number of employees – with no limits – with immediate results. Customer Service Training Video Library. Train your entire workforce in the art of exceptional customer service.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

There needs to be a system for decision-making and development of leaders and managers as well as the reinforcement of values, directions and performance expectations. People have a basic human need to feel appreciated. It is clear to your employees how key decisions are made, communicated and carried out.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 1, 2011

Organizations can accept that sociopaths are part of the diversity of the workforce and systems developed to identify them. 5 principles of simplicity via @ matthewemay [link] Humans need a reminder RT @ hunterwalk Good design teaches. It’s not just that they are lousy people managers. April 2011. March 2011.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Additionally, role playing is a wonderful opportunity to take stock of systems and performance, take corrective action, develop people and ready the organization for that fateful day. 5 principles of simplicity via @ matthewemay [link] Humans need a reminder RT @ hunterwalk Good design teaches. September 14, 2011 at 4:10 am.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

HR ensures an effective system to pinpoint high-potential talent and probable successors. 5 principles of simplicity via @ matthewemay [link] Humans need a reminder RT @ hunterwalk Good design teaches. Key to success is the HR executive’s ability to instill trust at all levels. CEOs must watch for that. April 2011. March 2011.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Bottom line : You form a strategic reward system when you integrate performance (results) and behavior (how those results were achieved). So the critical question is: “Is your performance management system driving the right behaviors for the organization?” I am worried about “strategic reward systems.&# Share feedback.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

A classic example was the old Bell System. Did the old Bell System, complete with its shelves of policy manuals, work? However, as leaders in the new AT&T now realize, the old command-and-control model of leadership will not encourage the creativity and responsiveness needed to get tomorrow’s job done. Pretty well!

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In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 16, 2011

But the structures, processes and people that keep things ticking along can also snuff good ideas and block their movement through the system. There’s a difference between what’s needed to run a business and what’s needed to foster creativity. Excessive layering kills ideas before they get to top management. April 2011.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Even with multi-application mobile phones and electronic messaging systems the first option people reach for when looking to take a quick note or write down contact details is a ballpoint pen. Even in this day with companies pushing towards paperless offices the classic ballpoint pen is a must have business accessory. Wristbands.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 23, 2011

Perhaps these occasions of retrospect are simply a built-in warning system. 5 principles of simplicity via @ matthewemay [link] Humans need a reminder RT @ hunterwalk Good design teaches. Now that I have children, I can see the years pass in front of my eyes. Life became a blur at some point and shows no signs of slowing down.

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QAspire

JULY 20, 2010

Use productivity tools, reminder systems, whatever. If you want to be trusted, you first need to be respected. ‘Being trusted’ is one of the basic human need, and leaders who fulfill this need early build great relationships with their people. Clients love it when you ship on time.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Corporations often approach ethics as an individual problem, designing oversight systems to identify the “bad apples” before they can turn the organization into a “rotten barrel.” They replicate despite changes in leadership and in management systems. Vince Streano/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

These systems and processes generate more data and work than most teams can process efficiently, which creates predictable rates of success for ROI-driven attackers engaged in schemes like credential stuffing. The answer is for companies to approach the problem differently — to improve the efficacy of the entire system.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

Dubbed the “Alien Dreadnought,” Tesla’s new manufacturing facility in Fremont, California, was designed to be fully automated — no humans need apply. Humans are underrated.” It was going to be the factory of the future. But Tesla fell far short of that mark, manufacturing just 2,000 vehicles a week.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

“This goes to the heart of intelligent systems design,” asserts Jerry Kaplan, author of Humans Need Not Apply. “The natural extension of longstanding historical progress is ‘automation,’ not a re-creation of the human mind and condition.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

Consider an assembly-line worker installing screws in a car’s electrical system. Both at work and away from work, all of us seek to fulfill a fundamental human need to belong. But this type of direct relationship can be hard to achieve in some jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

Humanity needs the kind of hard-core, heavy, physical infrastructure that GE sells, and we badly need clean infrastructure in particular. We humans need real machinery and complex supply chains to build a $75 trillion economy serving 7.4 GE’s experience is part of a larger story. billion people.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 5, 2016

There are five pillars of well being: five areas that we humans need to invest time and energy in to boost positive well being regularly. Exercise improves your immune system and fends off stress, dementia, and depression. Lisa Zigarmi and Chris Edmonds, Positivity at Work , ThinkAha, 2012). is more than the absence of sickness.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 13, 2014

To recognize what is driving either end, consider these six universal human needs and how each is being met, or not, in your job. The first need is respect. We need to be around people who are courteous and considerate. Are you performing at the top of your game at work? This is a big problem today in America.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

Therefore we need to see significantly greater investment in the education systems of these parts of the world – and others. But as good managers have discovered in so many realms of human need, pure philanthropy is not the only means for addressing social challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

So, you act like an anthropologist to understand human needs and problems before jumping to solutions. Most of us in business, if we need to discover how to do something new, use PowerPoint or Excel spreadsheets to rationalize our approach. And modern management systems must become far more adaptive. This must change.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Creating a personalized suite of benefits, providing greater flexibility and choice to better meet the needs of a global, diverse workforce. Enhancing our performance-management system with new tools to help employees navigate their career at GE and identify a wider range of opportunities across the company.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2017

They need to trade that off against the effects of allowing a transaction that is fraudulent. Humans need to do so. Instead, some human needs to wait for the prediction to arrive, and then assess the payoff. Most of us already do some Reward Function Engineering, but for humans — not machines.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Usually, figuring out the right answer is not the challenge, whether it’s a new strategy, more-efficient processes or systems, or a new structure that better meets the needs of a growing company. A core part of your job as a leader is to help others overcome the inherent, very human bias toward maintaining the status quo.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2018

Many people exhibit symptoms, and the deleterious effects reverberate throughout the whole system of employee relationships, both in and out of the workplace. Persistent barriers to good performance thwart the human need for mastery. Organizations with rampant burnout are like centers of infectious disease outbreaks.

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