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The Positive Organization
Breaking Free from Conventional Cultures, Constraints, and Beliefs
Robert E. Quinn
Too many enterprises waste human potential. Robert Quinn shows how to defy convention and create organizations where people feel fully engaged and continually rewarded. The problem is that leaders are following a negative and constraining “mental map” that insists organizations must be rigid, top-down hierarchies and that the people in them are driven mainly by self-interest and fear. But leaders can adopt a different mental map, one where organizations are networks of fluid, evolving relationships and where people are motivated by a desire to grow, learn, and serve a larger goal. Using dozens of memorable stories, Quinn describes specific actions leaders can take to facilitate the emergence of this organizational culture—helping people gain a sense of purpose, engage in authentic conversations, see new possibilities, and sacrifice for the common good.
Hardcover, 168 pages, ISBN 978-1-62656-562-3
PDF ebook, ISBN 978-1-62656-563-0
ePub ebook ISBN 978-1-62656-564-7
Digital audio, ISBN 978-1-62656-745-0
Lift, 2nd edition
The Fundamental State of Leadership
Ryan W. Quinn and Robert E. Quinn
Just as the Wright Brothers combined science and practice to finally realize the dream of flight, Ryan and Robert Quinn combine research and personal experience to demonstrate how to reach a psychological state that lifts us and those around us to greater heights of achievement, integrity, openness, and empathy. The updated edition of this award-winning book—honored by Utah State University’s Huntsman School of Business, Benedictine University, and the LeadershipNow web site --includes two new chapters, one describing a learning process and social media platform the Quinns created to help people experience lift and the other sharing new insights into tapping into human potential.
Paperback, 288
pages, ISBN 978-1-62656-401-5
PDF ebook, ISBN 978-1-62656-402-2
ePub ebook ISBN 978-1-62656-403-9
Digital audio, ISBN 978-1-62656-746-7
The Best Teacher in You
How to Accelerate Learning and Change Lives
Robert E. Quinn, Katherine Heynoski, Mike Thomas, and Gretchen M. Spreitzer
What does teaching look like at its very best? How are great teachers able to ignite a love of learning and change students’ lives? In this book you’ll learn from seven remarkable teachers who stretch beyond the conventional foundations of good teaching to transform their classrooms into exciting, dynamic places where teachers and students cocreate the learning experience. Based on six years of extensive work, the book outlines a framework that identifies four dimensions of effective teaching and learning that are integrated in these highly effective teachers’ classrooms—and that all teachers can use to recognize and release the potential in themselves and their students.
Paperback, 240 pages, ISBN 978-1-62656-178-6
PDF ebook, ISBN 978-1-62656-179-3
ePub ebook ISBN 978-1-62656-180-9
Positive Organizational Scholarship
Foundations of a New Discipline
Kim S. Cameron, Jane E. Dutton, and Robert E. Quinn, Editors
Just as positive psychology focuses on exploring optimal individual psychological states rather than pathological ones, Positive Organizational Scholarship focuses attention on optimal organizational states - the dynamics in organizations that lead to the development of human strength, foster resiliency in employees, make healing, restoration, and reconciliation possible, and cultivate extraordinary individual and organizational performance. The contributors of Positive Organizational Scholarship rigorously seek to understand what represents the best of the human condition based on scholarly research and theory. This book invites organizational scholars to build upon and extend the positive organizational phenomena being examined. It provides the definitional, theoretical, and empirical foundations for what will become a cumulative body of enduring work.
Hardcover, 480 pages, ISBN 978-1-57675-232-6
PDF ebook, ISBN 978-1-60509-438-0
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