The Positive Organization : Breaking Free from Conventional Cultures, Constraints, and Beliefs

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quinn, Robert E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in organizations.

Corporate culture.

Organizational behavior.

Organizational change.

Local Subjects:

Communication in organizations.

Corporate culture.

Organizational behavior.

Organizational change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Breaking free from conventional cultures, constraints, and beliefs

Place of Publication:

Oakland : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2015.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Beholden to accepted assumptions about people and organizations, too many enterprises waste human potential. Robert Quinn shows how to defy convention and create organizations where people feel fully engaged and continually rewarded, where both individually and collectively they flourish and exceed expectations.The problem is that leaders are following a negative and constraining "mental map" that insists organizations must be rigid top-down hierarchies and that the people in them are driven mainly by self-interest and fear. Quinn offers a more positive mental map and, using dozens of memorabl

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: The Reality of Possibility; 1 The Positive Organization; 2 Becoming Bilingual; 3 Creating a Sense of Purpose; 4 Nurturing Authentic Conversations; 5 Seeing Possibility; 6 Embracing the Common Good; 7 Trusting the Emergent Process; 8 Using the Positive Organization Generator; Appendix: The Positive Organization Generator; Notes; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781626565647

1626565643

OCLC:

915576466