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. why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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Innovation Conference Kaplan Talent Management 210

The Practical Leader

MARCH 29, 2023

These weak leaders manage by activity rather than by results. Author Adam Waytz is a psychologist and the Morris and Alice Kaplan Chair in Ethics and Decision Management at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. But for other leaders, it’s about face time.

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Kaplan Porter Absenteeism Participative 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Say that in a roomful of managers, and you get nervous laughter. Two myths about creativity underlie the squeamishness: First, that creativity is morally, ethically good. Notice: That second part of the creativity definition — "appropriate to some goal" — doesn't mean that the goal is necessarily ethical.

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Creative Accounting Creativity GAAP Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

Effective executives understand the productivity and customer loyalty future depends as much on motivating and managing their machines as inspiring their people. “This goes to the heart of intelligent systems design,” asserts Jerry Kaplan, author of Humans Need Not Apply. “Why would you treat them differently?”

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Review Kaplan Kaizen Performance Review 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2013

People are OK at assessing others but really bad at seeing themselves in their own unvarnished, self-centered, sometimes ethically challenged glory, as psychologist David Dunning writes (Robert Stephen Kaplan says we don''t know our own strengths either ). But then only 43% of the total actually made such a purchase.

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Dunning Kleiner Kaplan IPO 8

LDRLB

OCTOBER 22, 2012

As study author Steve Kaplan puts it, “Persistent leaders don’t give up>” Never giving up is common with successful company leaders and business entrepreneurs. I expect people to do their best, and anyone who works for me has to have a strong work ethic. Genuinely care for your people. Help them succeed.

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Power Kaplan Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 167