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Change the World : How Ordinary People Can Achieve Extraordinary Results

9 reviews
Robert E. Quinn

Jossey-Bass, 2000

real change
"Typically a top management team goes off for three days," writes the author Quinn. "They hole up in a room with lots of flip charts and go to work." Then he says that when they're through they typically write words on small cards and pass them out to employees. Sadly, he observes these cards are "ignored and things go on as before." The premise underlying this book is that Quinn would have us ...

Building the Bridge As You Walk On It: A Guide for Leading Change

10 reviews
Robert E. Quinn

Jossey-Bass, 2004

It's All About Facing our own Fears
Walking naked into the wilderness. Being willing to talk about the elephants filling the room. Recognizing the trunk growing on my own face. Letting yesterday's organization go, those cozy perceptions that make our own inaction seem to be the safest way. Taking the road less traveled. Questioning my supervisor in an open, warm and respectful way---rather than complaining about him or her ...

Becoming a Master Manager: A Competing Values Approach
Robert E. Quinn, Sue R. Faerman, ...

Wiley, 2006

Practical strategies for building strong managerial skills! With the new Fourth Edition of Becoming a Master Manager: A Competency Framework, you can build practical skills in every area of managerial competency--skills you'll need to thrive in the diverse situations and challenges of the new millennium! The text guides you through eight interactive learning modules covering different leadership roles, including director, producer, ...

Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture: Based on the Competing Values Framework (The Jossey-Bass ...

9 reviews
Kim S. Cameron, Robert E. Quinn

Jossey-Bass, 2005

The most helpful book...
This is the most helpful book available on organizational culture. Their OCAI instrument (for diagnosing organizational culture) alone is worth more than the price of the book. I use Cameron & Quinn's material with every one of my clients. Dr. Michael Beitler Author of "Strategic Organizational Change"

Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within (Jossey-Bass Business & Management Series)

21 reviews
Robert E. Quinn

Jossey-Bass, 1996

An excellent read...
I had to read this book for my executive MBA program, and the class agreed that it was a very relevant and enlightening experience. I work for a large company that had a big merger pending, and I ordered copies for the senior managers that report to me. It is thought-provoking and helps one re-examine oneself with rich anectodes and vignettes that keep the book from descending into ...

Competing Values Leadership: Creating Value in Organizations (New Horizons in Management)

2 reviews
Kim S. Cameron, Robert E. Quinn, ...

Edward Elgar Pub, 2007

Great for business or leadership researchers
Subtitle: Creating Value in Organizations As a doctoral candidate in business management, I have leadership books growing out of my ears. When I discovered Competing Values Leadership, I prepared myself for the worst, secretly hoping these authors would offer a unique perspective on leadership that not only offers value but also demonstrates how leadership affects the bottom line in business. ...

The Magic Carpet, Vol 4, No. 1 (January 1934)

Wildside Press, 2008

Facsimile reprint of the July, 1933 issue of the legendary pulp magazine, "The Magic Carpet." Included in this volume are works by Frank Owen, Robert E. Howard (2 stories), Seabury Quinn, more.

Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline

2 reviews

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003

The idea of positive deviance might seem odd at first, but becomes quite powerful as you understand it
Happiness is something different than the absence of misery and health is something more than the absence of disease and debilitation. These statements are so obvious as to seem trivial. However, they are still true. If you have been fortunate to be part of an organization that was in one of those wonderful upward spirals that also involved a phenomenal team that was unified and happy, well, ...

The Magic Carpet, Vol 3, No. 3 (July 1933)

Wildside Press, 2008

Facsimile reprint of the July, 1933 issue of the legendary pulp magazine, "The Magic Carpet." Included in this volume are works by H. Bedford-Jones, Robert E. Howard, Seabury Quinn, more.

Becoming A Master Manager: A Competency Framework

19 reviews
Robert E. Quinn, Sue R. Faerman, ...

Wiley, 2002

Becoming a Master Manager
This is one book I believe all managers should read. Talking to several people in the business world, they don't see where they fit in as a manager. Many of them are too much of one thing or not enough of another. After taking a Competing Values Management Practices Survey, then reading this book, and taking the survey again, you can see on the "spider-web graph" where in the circle you fit ...

Far Below and Other Horrors from the Pulps
Robert E. Howard, Seabury Quinn

Fax Collector's Editions, 2003

What Great Leaders Do (HBR Article Collection)
Robert E. Quinn, Marcus Buckingham, ...

Harvard Business Review, 2005

It's a frustrating fact of leadership: Sometimes you're on your game; sometimes you're not. How to tip the scale toward excellence and away from mere competence? Don't rely on imitating other leaders or poring over leadership manuals. Instead, mobilize the leadership talent that already exists with you--the abilities you've acquired while surmounting tough personal and professional challenges in the past. At the same time, capitalize on your ...

Letters to Garrett: Stories of Change, Power and Possibility

2 reviews
Robert E. Quinn, Garrett T. Quinn

Jossey-Bass, 2002

Inspiring!
I found Letters to Garrett to be a truly wonderful book and recommend it highly. When I started, I thought I wouldn't be able to identify with Garrett that much. I'm older than he is and know pretty much where I'm going in life. I was surprised then about how often I saw myself in Garrett. It pointed out that we face transitions much more often in our lives than we might think. It's not just ...

Becoming a Master Manager - a Competency Framework 3e (WIE)
Robert E. Quinn, Sue R. Faerman, ...

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

Moments of Greatness: Entering the Fundamental State of Leadership (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Robert E. Quinn

Harvard Business Review, 2005

When we do our best work as leaders, we don't imitate others. Rather, we draw on our own values and capabilities. We enter what author Robert Quinn calls the fundamental state of leadership. This is a frame of mind we tend to adopt when facing a significant challenge: a promotion opportunity, the risk of professional failure, a serious illness, a divorce, the death of a loved one, or any other major life jolt. Crisis calls, and we rise to the ...

Beyond Rational Management: Mastering the Paradoxes and Competing Demands of High Performance (Jossey Bass ...

1 review
Robert E. Quinn

Jossey-Bass, 1991

A brilliant idea!
Many management books prescribe one management method as the cure-all which would resolve all problems. Others suggest that one management philosophy is the only one appropriate for a given organization. This book suggests that there are several basic management philosophies, and that organizations go through different cycles with a different managerial approach being correct for each stage ...

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