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The Economics of Higher Purpose

Two distinguished scholars offer eight steps to help organizations discover and embrace an authentic higher purpose—somet...

The Positive Organization (Audio)

Continuing his groundbreaking work in Positive Organizational Scholarship, Robert Quinn (bestselling author of Deep Chang...

Lift (Audio)

Leading scholars Ryan W. Quinn and Robert E. Quinn marshal both scientific research and personal experience to show how y...

The Best Teacher in You

How can teachers learn from their colleagues, and build out their undiscovered skills?

  • Staggering Potential Left Untapped

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    Staggering Potential Left Untapped

    This is excerpted from Chapter 13 of Lift, 2nd Edition. Shawn Quinn (Bob’s son and Ryan’s brother) once worked with a woman who told him a story about a project that she was assigned to lead. The project was important to the work of the organization, and required a team with members of differe...

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    September 4, 2015

  • Embracing the Common Good

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    Embracing the Common Good

    The following is an excerpt from Chapter 6 of The Positive Organization. “Did you know that organizations are political?”   When this question is posed to a class of executives the response is usually a low laugh. The laugh signifies that the question surfaces something so obvious that it is s...

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    August 27, 2015

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