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Beholden to accepted assumptions about people and organizations, too many enterprises waste human potential. Robert Quinn shows how to defy convention and create organizations where people feel fully engaged and continually rewarded, where both individually and collectively they flourish and exceed expectations.

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.

The book includes the Positive Organization Generator, a tool that provides 100 real-life practices from positive organizations and helps you reinvent them to fit your specific needs. With the POG you can identify and implement the practices that will have the greatest impact on your organization.

At its heart, the book helps leaders to see new possibilities that lie within the acknowledged realities of organizational life. It provides five keys for learning to be "bilingual"--speaking the conventional language of business as well as the language of the positive organization. When leaders can do this, they are able to make real and lasting change.

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  • Title The Positive Organization: Breaking Free from Conventional Cultures, Constraints, and Beliefs
  • Author Robert E. Quinn
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 168
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers
  • Publication date 2015
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9781626565623 / 1626565627
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.4 x 6.3 x 0.7 in (23.88 x 16.00 x 1.78 cm)
  • Category Business / Economics / Finance
  • Library of Congress subjects Corporate culture, Organizational change
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2015011093
  • Dewey Decimal Code 658.300

About the author

Robert E. Quinn holds the Margaret Elliott Tracy Collegiate Professorship at the University of Michigan and serves on the faculty of Management and Organizations at the Ross School of Business. He is a cofounder of the Center for Positive Organizations. He has authored or coauthored eighteen books, including the bestselling Deep Change and the award-winning Best Teacher in You. He has thirty years of experience consulting with major corporations and government agencies.
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