Positive Politics: Using Self-Honesty and Transparency to Achieve What’s Best...
By Ryan W. Quinn Politics is not bad. Practicing managers always seem surprised when organizational behavior scholars tell them this. But politics is just the activity of using power—something all of...
View ArticleEngaging Mindfully: How a Single Moment of Presence Transforms the Way You Work
By Amy Lemley If you enter an executive education or MBA class these days, you might find yourself surprised to see participants sitting in complete silence, eyes closed and bodies relaxed. The...
View ArticlePositive Agendas and Necessary Evils: Short-Term Pain for Long-Term Gain
By Ryan W. Quinn Hospitals face an immensely difficult challenge in our modern culture because their employees are tasked to provide patients with life-saving and sometimes life-threatening care—all...
View ArticleEye on the Hurricane: Living through Sandy, on Watch for the Next Big Storm
By Schon Beechler For two weeks I had been on the road, in France and Maryland, directing leadership programs for managers. Friday night I arrived home, exhausted but satisfied, to find my mother and...
View ArticleA Conflicted Country and the Strategy of the Third Path: How Do We Go From Here?
By Robert E. Quinn Tuesday was the Presidential election. On Wednesday morning I went to the gym. Two women were there who are in their seventies. One was wearing an Obama shirt and looked very happy....
View ArticleAnd the Truth Shall Set You Free: Stop Overselling, Increase Transparency,...
By Shawn Quinn Have you ever oversold a job you were hiring for to try to get your favorite candidate to accept? Have you ever oversold aspects of yourself to try to get a position you were...
View ArticleFrom Emotional Labor to Emotional Opportunity: How Personal Investment in...
By Ryan W. Quinn I walked into a restaurant a few weeks ago and was impressed with the person behind the counter. He was a fiftyish man named Jim, and he was smiling and laughing and appeared genuinely...
View ArticleTranscending “Normal”: Learning to Access the Power of Positive Organizing
By Robert E. Quinn Highly functioning organizations are different from other organizations. They engage in a process called positive organizing. Positive organizing transcends normal assumptions. To...
View ArticlePositive Leadership in Action: Prudential’s Jim Mallozzi Shows How It Works
By Amy Lemley How would you unify more than 50,000 employees worldwide? Ask Jim Mallozzi, chairman and CEO of Prudential Real Estate and Relocation Services. The answer? Positive organizational...
View ArticleWe Are Not Alone: How to Build a Sense of Belonging, One Conversation at a Time
By Ryan W. Quinn Seven billion people worldwide. Instant connection to almost anywhere, anytime, through electronic media. Working in and with organizations day and night. It’s hard to imagine anyone...
View ArticleThe Teaching and Practice of POS, Part I: Understanding the Basic Message
By Robert E. Quinn In this five-part series, I explore the ways in which positive organizational scholarship’s teachers and practitioners can use empirical examples to make the subject both clear and...
View ArticleThe Teaching and Practice of POS, Part II: On Being “Normally Blind”
By Robert E. Quinn In this five-part series, I explore the ways in which positive organizational scholarship’s teachers and practitioners can use empirical examples to make the subject both clear and...
View ArticleThe Teaching and Practice of POS, Part III: Recognizing How Threatening the...
By Robert E. Quinn In this five-part series, I explore the ways in which positive organizational scholarship’s teachers and practitioners can use empirical examples to make the subject both clear and...
View ArticleThe Teaching and Practice of POS, Part IV: Transcending the Narrow Mindset
By Robert E. Quinn In this five-part series, I explore the ways in which positive organizational scholarship’s teachers and practitioners can use empirical examples to make the subject both clear and...
View ArticleThe Teaching and Practice of POS, Part V: Transcending Your Own Culture
By Robert E. Quinn In this five-part series, I explore the ways in which positive organizational scholarship’s teachers and practitioners can use empirical examples to make the subject both clear and...
View ArticleIthaka: My Own Journey from Busy-ness to Clarity of Purpose
By Ryan W. Quinn I had an experience this week that is both wonderful and embarrassing: I actually applied some basic principles of positive organizational scholarship in my own life. They...
View ArticleTeaching and Leading Positively, Part 1: The Digestion of Experience
By Robert E. Quinn This six-part series, “Teaching and Leading Positively,” explores the goals of teaching positive leadership: not merely to serve as an instructor conveying the theories or practices...
View ArticleTeaching and Leading Positively, Part 2: Where Change Can Happen
By Robert E. Quinn This six-part series, “Teaching and Leading Positively,” explores the goals of teaching positive leadership: not merely to serve as an instructor conveying the theories or practices...
View ArticleTeaching and Leading Positively, Part 3: Living What We Teach
By Robert E. Quinn This six-part series, “Teaching and Leading Positively,” explores the goals of teaching positive leadership: not merely to serve as an instructor conveying the theories or practices...
View ArticleTeaching and Leading Positively, Part 4: A Provocative Tool for Discussing...
By Robert E. Quinn Teaching people how to transform and how to stimulate transformation is very difficult. The life assumptions of normal people are tied to survival assumptions—not to flourishing....
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