Connection Culture: The Competitive Advantage of Shared Identity, Empathy, and Understanding at Work

Organizations thrive when employees feel valued, the environment is energized, and high productivity and innovation are the norm. This requires a new kind of leader who fosters a culture of connection within the organization. Michael Lee Stallard’s Connection Culture provides a fresh way of thinking about leadership and offers recommendations for how to tap into the power of human connection.

If you want to begin fostering a connection culture in your organization, this book is your game-changing opportunity. Stop undermining performance and take the first step toward change that will give your organization, your team, and all whom you lead a true competitive advantage.

Inspiring and practical, this book challenges you to set the performance bar high and to keep reaching. In this book you will learn how to :

• foster a connection culture
• emulate best practices of connected workplaces like those at Pixar and Duke University’s men’s basketball team
• boost vision, value, and voice within your organization.

Michael Lee Stallard is co-founder and president of E Pluribus Partners and a respected and recognized expert on the human connection aspects of leadership and culture. He speaks, teaches, coaches and consults for clients including General Electric, Google, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, NASA, Texas Christian University, U.S. Department of Treasury and Yale New Haven Health System. Michael is the primary author of the book Fired Up or Burned Out and a contributor to several books including What Managers Say, What Employees Hear: Connecting With Your Front Line (So They'll Connect with Customers), and the ASTD Management Development Handbook. He lives in Greenwich, Connecticut.