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	<description>Thoughts and Updates on Positive Organizational Scholarship and Its Implications for Leaders</description>
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		<title>Increasing Capacity: How Far Should a Teacher Go?</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2010/03/08/increasing-capacity-how-far-should-a-teacher-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Quinn, Monica Worline, Robert Quinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The advice to leave behind the assumptions of hierarchical control and act “with” your people is probably sound. It is, however, mostly useless.  The normal executive may understand the principle but still has no idea how to apply.  If we wish to reach the executive world, the responsibility falls on us to practice the principles of Positive Organizational Scholarship in our teaching.]]></description>
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		<title>Making Work Fun</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2010/03/01/making-work-fun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Quinn, Monica Worline, Robert Quinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Play and work are not separate activities, but are orientations that we can take toward activities--even the same activity.]]></description>
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		<title>Increasing Profit: How Far Should an Executive Go?</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2010/02/22/increasing-profit-how-far-should-an-executive-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Quinn, Monica Worline, Robert Quinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Executives, who are truly interested in profits, should be hungry to understand positivity ratios and connectivity. ...Unfortunately these expectations do not hold up.  One reason is that connectivity and synergy are nearly incomprehensible to the executive mind, and further, to minds of most of the rest of us.]]></description>
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		<title>Can Downsizing Be Positive?</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2010/02/16/can-downsizing-be-positive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2010/02/16/can-downsizing-be-positive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Quinn, Monica Worline, Robert Quinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes there is no alternative to downsizing, and  in these cases, there are ways to do it well. Sometimes, however, managers believe that there is no alternative to downsizing when there is.]]></description>
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		<title>Leading Change: The Power of Authentic Dialog</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2010/02/08/leading-change-the-power-of-authentic-dialog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2010/02/08/leading-change-the-power-of-authentic-dialog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Quinn, Monica Worline, Robert Quinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people believe that an organization is changed by rational argument and the application of leverage.  Since organization members resist change, someone must force the change process.  Most people know they do not have enough power to force the process.  They therefore see themselves as victims of organizational inertia.]]></description>
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		<title>Caring Begets Creativity</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2010/02/01/caring-begets-creativity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Quinn, Monica Worline, Robert Quinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that I know to look for this pattern, I see it at work as well as at home. If you want to be more creative, care a little bit more about others, and a little less about yourself.]]></description>
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		<title>Caring about Customers versus Caring for Customers</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2010/01/29/caring-about-customers-versus-caring-for-customers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Quinn, Monica Worline, Robert Quinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The debt collections manager and his employees did not know that any of this would happen. They simply did what they thought was right and the outcomes emerged. Positive organizing is often about trying to do the right things, allowing new patterns to emerge, and trying agan as a new and better future emerges. The simple question, "What if we really meant what we said when we said that one of our core values was concern for our customers?" transformed managers, employees, and customers, creating new capabilties and new possibilities for that future.]]></description>
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		<title>Learning Leadership and Parenting from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and My Children</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2010/01/18/learning-leadership-and-parenting-from-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-my-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Quinn, Monica Worline, Robert Quinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parenting has given me a new lens to explore positive leadership practices. Although I preach the same lessons to my children that I teach to my students, these lessons take on a new meaning when heard by my children.]]></description>
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		<title>Professional Schools as Incubators of Transformational People</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2010/01/11/professional-schools-as-incubators-of-transformational-people/</link>
		<comments>http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2010/01/11/professional-schools-as-incubators-of-transformational-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Quinn, Monica Worline, Robert Quinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is extensive research on what transformational people do.  Yet this knowledge has not led to the emergence of educational schools or business schools that produce transformational people.   Knowledge is necessary but insufficient. I am suggesting two shifts.   The first is from a negative focus to a positive focus.  The second is from analyzing what others do to analyzing what we do.]]></description>
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		<title>Out with the Old (Blame), In with the New (Positivity)</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2010/01/04/out-with-the-old-blame-in-with-the-new-positivity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2010/01/04/out-with-the-old-blame-in-with-the-new-positivity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Quinn, Monica Worline, Robert Quinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight Gary Patterson and his team will kick off their new year by trying to achieve new heights that their football program has never achieved before. As we kick off a new year--and a new decade--of leadership and scholarship on positive organizing it might be useful to take Gary Patterson as a guide in creating our own resolutions. A little less blame and a little more positivity may take us and our organizations a long way.]]></description>
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