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	<title>Creating and Sustaining Positive Organizations</title>
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	<description>A blog by Ryan Quinn, Robert Quinn, Shawn Quinn and Schon Beechler</description>
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		<title>What Is the Role of Authority in the Change Process?: A Discussion from The Deep Change Field Guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 18:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert E. Quinn This is the second of a series of three posts drawn from Chapter One of  The Deep Change Field Guide: A Personal Course to Discovering the Leader Within.  In these discussions, we investigate both the barriers to deep change and the ways in (for a further introduction to this blog series, view [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do Organizational Change Efforts Fail?: A Discussion from the Deep Change Field Guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 16:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert E. Quinn This year, Jossey-Bass published The Deep Change Field Guide: A Personal Course to Discovering the Leader Within. It is an update and rewrite of my bestselling book Deep Change.  This self-guided course helps you become an effective agent of change.  Each chapter is linked to a Hollywood Movie: Moneyball; Norma Rae; The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Engaging Others When the Economy Sucks</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2012/05/11/engaging-others-when-the-economy-sucks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 17:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Courage / Empowerment / Initiative]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Schon Beechler Many employees around the world live in a world of fear—the fear of not knowing what’s going to happen next, the fear of losing their jobs, the fear of not being able to provide for their children, the fear of having few or no options left when the bottom drops out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Having It All&#8221; at Work: Is It Possible Both to Be Successful and to Make a Difference?</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2012/05/10/having-it-all-at-work-is-it-possible-to-be-both-successful-and-make-a-difference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 23:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Schon Beechler How can we be happy, successful, and make a positive difference in the world? My parents were two major forces in my development as a child, with two very different philosophies. My father focused on urging me to develop and use my intellect to get an advanced degree and pursue a prestigious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Positive Deviance and Virtuousness on the Campaign Trail: What Would You Do If You Were Running for President?</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2012/05/04/positive-deviance-and-virtuousness-on-the-campaign-trail-what-would-you-do-if-you-were-running-for-president/</link>
		<comments>http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2012/05/04/positive-deviance-and-virtuousness-on-the-campaign-trail-what-would-you-do-if-you-were-running-for-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 13:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Shawn Quinn Eight billion dollars. Some predictions say that’s how much will be spent in this year’s U.S. Presidential campaign. Eight billion dollars. Just to get the job. I got to wondering: If they were to apply some concepts from the field of Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS), how might Mitt Romney or President Obama [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truth Tears: The Joy of Knowing Deeply</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2012/04/28/truth-tears-the-joy-of-knowing-deeply/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 22:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert E. Quinn A woman came to see me. She had been reading my book Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within. She talked about how the book spoke to her soul. I listened and asked questions. She told me how hard she had struggled to find her professional identity. She had changed majors several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Legacy: What Will You Leave Behind?</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2012/04/27/the-power-of-legacy-what-will-you-leave-behind/</link>
		<comments>http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2012/04/27/the-power-of-legacy-what-will-you-leave-behind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert E. Quinn A graduate student joined me in teaching a half-day retreat for the staff or our Executive Education Program at the Ross School of Business. They asked us to do the retreat around the theme of legacy. A legacy is that which a person leaves behind. I invited the graduate student to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning and Leadership: A Prison Story</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2012/04/26/learning-and-leadership-a-prison-story/</link>
		<comments>http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2012/04/26/learning-and-leadership-a-prison-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Agility / Adaptation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert E. Quinn Yesterday I had lunch with a graduate student. I had not met him before. Our discussion started out like most academic discussions. But as he sensed that I was truly interested in his ideas and in him, he began to open up, like a flower in the sun. Our conversation became [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choice Point: Do Not Let Your Culture Kill You</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2012/04/25/choice-point-do-not-let-your-culture-kill-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2012/04/25/choice-point-do-not-let-your-culture-kill-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/?p=1859</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Robert E. Quinn A student wrote to me. He told of working for a large company that was committed to leadership development but not through investment in courses. Instead they invested in altering their culture and involving their managers in the process of deep change. The company, for example, launched a high-performance work system [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stretching Your Future Leaders: The Shanghai Experience</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2012/04/24/stretching-your-future-leaders-the-shanghai-experience/</link>
		<comments>http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2012/04/24/stretching-your-future-leaders-the-shanghai-experience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert E. Quinn I once wrote that excellence is, by definition, a form of deviance. If I do something in an excellent way, I am not doing what is normal. Excellence is positive deviance, or going outside the box in a desirable or honorable way. To become excellent I must choose to leave my [...]]]></description>
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