Don't let your company kill you! Open this book at your own risk. It contains ideas that may lead to a profound self-awakening. An introspective journey for those in the trenches of today's modern organizations, Deep Change is a survival manual for finding our own internal leadership power. By helping us learn new ways of thinking and behaving, it ...
This title provides 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 ...
"Building the Bridge As You Walk On It" tells the personal stories of people who have embraced deep change and inspired author Robert Quinn to take his concept one step further and develop a new model of leadership "the fundamental state of leadership". The exploration of this transformative state is at the very heart of the book. Quinn shows how ...
High reliability organizations (HROs) such as ER units in hospitals or firefighting units are designed to perform efficiently under extreme stress and pressure. Using HROs as the model for the 21st century organization, Karl Weick and Kathleen Sutcliffe show readers how to respond to unexpected challenges with flexibility rather than rigidity and ...
A new member of the renowned PH OD Series! The main purpose of this book is to help managers, change agents, and scholars to understand, diagnose, and facilitate the change of an organization's culture in order to enhance its effectiveness. Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture presents three forms of assistance: (1) validated instruments ...
"Positive Organizational Scholarship" is a book that helps establish a new field of study in the organizational sciences. It examines a variety of positive dynamics in organizations that give rise to extraordinary outcomes, often described by words, such as excellence, thriving, flourishing, abundance, vitality, and resilience. POS has a bias ...
To be successful in today's business environment, organizations need the knowledge, ideas, energy, and creativity of every employee. The best companies accomplish this by turning themselves into a company of leaders - an organization in which employees at every level take the initiative and act as though the business where their own. Gretchen M. ...
As the war for talent rages on, organizations are seeking proven methods for leveraging diversity as a resource. Creating the Multicultural Organization challenges today's organizations to stop "counting heads for the government" and begin creating effective strategies for a more positive approach to managing diversity. Using a model outlined in ...
Becoming a Master Manager is an effective tool for stimulating thinking and building management skills. The book takes you through some of the social and intellectual challenges that managers encounter everyday, the most prominent being pulled by competing demands and having to play many roles simultaneously. This book uses the Competing Values ...
"Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture" provides a framework, a sense-making tool, a set of systematic steps, and a methodology for helping managers and their organizations carefully analyze and alter their fundamental culture. Authors, Cameron and Quinn focus on the methods and mechanisms that are available to help managers and change ...
The idea that inner change makes outer change possible has always been part of spiritual and psychological teachings. But, until now, it's an idea that hasn't usually been addressed in leadership and management training. With Change the World! Quinn turns this idea into an action guide for organization leaders, managers, parents, and everyone ...
Editor Robert Weinberg has assembled a stellar collection of rare horror stories from the weird fiction pulps, including contributions from Robert Barbour Johnson, Julius Long, G.G. Pendarves, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Mearle Prout, Mindret Lord, Robert E. Howard, Earl Pierte, Jr., Seabury Quinn, J. Wesley Rosenquest, and Robert Nelson.
Draws together extensive research on leadership, change, and organizational performance to help leaders make sense of the complexities and contradictions of organizational life. Explains how managers can come to see new possibilities for structuring organizations, designing jobs, and solving daily problems by learning to embrace and transcend ...
This is a compendium of leading-edge research on pressing organizational problems - but presented in simple language, with a focus on workable, real-world solutions. Among the 11 important problems addressed are corrosive organizational politics, service two (or more) masters, overworked people, underemployed human resources, and analysis ...
When Robert Quinn's son, Garrett, went away to college, he was frustrated and wondered how he could shake off his feelings of depression and anxiety. It was a transition that was difficult for both father and son. Bob finally realized that Garrett didn't need to be fixed; he needed his father's love and support. Bob invited Garrett to exchange ...
Making I/T Work offers managers basic guidance and an effective model for making the right choices when considering implementing information-based business projects. In this book, Dennis Severance and Jacque Passino provide business leaders with a framework of organizational change that places the problems of change into a context so that they can ...
Although many leaders acknowledge and invest in creativity, we seldom see it hold a credible place in the business development process. Creativity at Work takes a practical approach to creativity, showing how to select practices to produce results and add value. The authors explain how to: Understand the creative preferences of organizations, ...
With the arrival of expanding globalization, technology, and entrepreneurship the law has become an enabler that allows firms to globalize, to develop entrepreneurial ventures, to create a customer-focused company, and to create corporate values. This resource shows how individual managers can use the law to create competitive advantage for their ...
Just as the Wright Brothers combined science and practice to finally achieve the dream of flight, Ryan and Robert Quinn combine research and experience to demonstrate how we can elevate ourselves and the situations and people around us to greater heights of integrity, openness, and achievement to achieve the psychological equivalent of aerodynamic ...
The fourth issue of Adventure Tales is a special "Weird Tales" tribute issue, featuring stories from contributors to the classic magazine, including Robert E. Howard ("Son of the White Wolf"), Seabury Quinn, John D. Swain, E. Hoffmann Price, Edwin Baird, and more!
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.
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.
Organizations both make and implement policy, and policy is most often directed at organizations. Yet the complex interaction between policy and organization is not often studied. The essays in this volume apply the insights of organization studies to the study of policy. They also deal with political and economic issues that are often passed over ...
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