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December 5, 2016
Lea Waters, the Gerry Higgins Chair in Positive Psychology and is the founding Director of the Centre for Positive Psychology at the University of Melbourne, was elected to the position of President-Elect with the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA). Her term lasts until 2018 and as President-Elect, she will contribute to IPPA’s continuing mission of promoting […]
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November 29, 2016
An open letter to the Center for Positive Organizations community: Our hearts have been heavy the past few weeks as we have witnessed hateful crimes on the University of Michigan campus, and talked to many who are coming to grips with the current social climate. In dialogue about how we can best be a resource […]
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November 23, 2016
Professor Andy Hoffman shows there are some areas of common ground despite deep political divisions. We are a divided nation; that is an understatement. What’s more, we increasingly hear we are living in our own “bubble” or echo chamber that differing views cannot penetrate. To correct the problem, many are calling for people to reach […]
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November 21, 2016
Professor Robert Quinn was interviewed by Lisa Barry of local NPR station, WEMU, on their radio broadcast for “Art and Soul: The Art of Better Living.” Quinn shares a perspective on the election aftermath through the lens of Positive Organizational Scholarship. He explores parallels from personal experience, discusses ways that some people have found new meaning, and […]
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November 17, 2016
By: Robert E. Quinn
The following post was originally featured in Professor Robert Quinn’s blog, The Positive Organization. The election of Donald Trump has brought much emotion into public discourse. The conflicts are intense and the intensity is likely to last for a long time. In the last few days I have had two conversations that were particularly instructive. […]
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November 16, 2016
In her Huffington Post blog post, “Can You Create Positive Changes From The Bottom Up?,” Michelle McQuaid compiled reflections from an interview with Chris White, managing director of the Center for Positive Organizations. The full interview, which was conducted at the 2016 Positive Business Conference, also appears on her Making Positive Psychology Work podcast. McQuaid is […]
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November 16, 2016
In an interview with Central Valley Business Times, Monica Worline explains how compassion at work can ease political wounds. “It’s quite important,” she noted, for a number of key areas including innovation, service quality, adapting to change, recruiting, and retaining talent. In response to whether compassion is a “soft” way of managing people, she stated “the […]
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November 16, 2016
Digital health, wellness, and leadership training organization Whil has published a video blog of Chris Murchison‘s presentation at Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center’s Gratitude Summit. In “Cultivating Gratitude in the Workplace,” Murchison explores the importance of gratitude in affirming worth in workplaces, and practices that emphasize gratitude. “We think about beginnings very intentionally,” he explains, noting that first moments […]
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November 16, 2016
By: Fred Keller
Executive in Residence Blog Series I was recently asked to address a group of 100 attorneys as they did their annual planning retreat. They wanted me to address the cultural elements at Cascade Engineering in hopes of stimulating their thinking about how they could improve their culture. I was flattered that they asked a manufacturer […]
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November 9, 2016
New research by Professor Sue Ashford shows the rationalizations workers facing job loss can use to justify misbehavior, and how to prevent it. It’s well-established that fear over job security leads to lower productivity and disengagement at work. When people are nervous and upset they check out. But new research from Michigan Ross professor […]
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November 9, 2016
Professor Jane Dutton shows how to boost employee engagement and performance by improving the way companies select and introduce new employees. A Gallup survey shows just 32 percent of employees in the United States feel engaged at work. To Michigan Ross Professor Jane Dutton, that’s just further evidence too many people are “dying at […]
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November 9, 2016
By: Richard Haller
Executive in Residence Blog Series This seems to be the question that haunts us, all of our lives. If you are wondering if it ever disappears, I can only say that even after retirement, it remains an object of my personal exploration. It is something I never really expected, but then again I might have […]
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