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		<title>From the Lazy Use of Personality to a Mindful View of Ourselves and Others</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ryan W. Quinn I have used a heavy hand this week by labeling personality as our enemy and by cataloguing all of the problems it causes. I suspect that some of our readers may not like the stance I have taken. That is fine. This is a blog where we share what we have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Personality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ryan W. Quinn Almost immediately after our MBA students arrive at the Darden School of Business and begin taking classes, my colleagues and I in the Leadership and Organizational Behavior area teach our students about moving from being self-focused to being other-focused (see chapters 7 and 8 of Lift, Leadership and Self-Deception by the Arbinger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Personality is Your Enemy: Part III</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Refusing responsibility by invoking personality does more than just get a person out of doing something. It also sloughs the responsibility on to someone else and prevents the person from taking on challenges and growing by stretching themselves.]]></description>
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		<title>Why Personality is Your Enemy: Part II</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2012/01/31/why-personality-is-your-enemy-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One reason why personality is often a good manager’s enemy is because it promotes labeling and a focus on individuals, often ignoring or enhancing conflict in the process.]]></description>
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		<title>Why Personality Is Your Enemy: Part I</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2012/01/30/why-personality-is-your-enemy-part-i-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ryan W. Quinn I have learned, over the years, that when people in organizations make attributions about problems in their organizations, it is easy to point to personality flaws—or shall I say, perceived personality flaws. This became apparent again as I was working with a boss and one of her direct reports, helping them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fisherman, the Soulmates, and the Growth Mindset</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert E. Quinn I am fortunate to have the opportunity to travel to places around the world teaching the principles of positive leadership, and with each new place I visit, I gain a new perspective. As I walked along an Australian shoreline with a friend during one of these international trips, we noticed an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gratitude and the Emergence of the Growth Mindset</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert E. Quinn I met with a young woman who worked with us last year and is now in a doctoral program in another state.  She had much she wanted to tell me.  At one point, she spoke about some negative things that happened to her.  Later she told me she was keeping a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Co-creation and the Growth Mindset</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert E. Quinn Venkat Ramaswamy is the Hallman Fellow of Electronic Business and Professor of Marketing at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, and colleague of mine http://www.bus.umich.edu/facultybios/FacultyBio.asp?id=000119750.  During one of our chats he spoke animatedly of his work.  An hour later he had hardly stopped to take a breath!  His enthusiasm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living With the Growth Mindset</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert E. Quinn Recently I spoke to a room full of plant managers who work in a very tough industry.  I was saying things they were not used to hearing, and challenging assumptions that were previously unquestioned.  Because I put everything into their language and their world, I had credibility and it was hard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transitioning from One Year to Another: One Man&#8217;s Journey into Positive Leadership</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingwithlift.com/blog/2012/01/18/transitioning-from-one-year-to-another-one-mans-journey-into-positive-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had made it through the holidays without the whirl of my hard drive to interrupt the peacefulness of the warm New Zealand summer days. Now it was time to get back to work. Among the sea of junkmail in my inbox, the annual Christmas letter from Sam, an alum from my Columbia Senior Executive program over a decade ago, beckoned. With a smile, I clicked on it, expecting the usual newsy letter from Sam on life in Asia, his health-related and job-related challenges and opportunities.  But this year's letter was different....]]></description>
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