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December 17, 2014
ANN ARBOR, Mich.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business today announced that Chris Marcell Murchison, Vice President of Staff Development and Culture at HopeLab, will serve as Visiting Leader at the Center for Positive Organizations. In his two-year appointment, Murchison will unify his successful business background with the ongoing research, teaching and organizational partnerships of the Center.
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December 12, 2014
Gretchen Spreitzer quoted The Chronicle of Higher Education:
“There’s been a support system for female faculty members at Ross for some time, says Gretchen Spreitzer, a professor of management and organizations. She points to ‘the Neighbors Group,’ a gathering of women on the faculty that started up shortly after she earned her Ph.D. at Ross, in the late 1990s, and continues today.
“What has changed, Ms. Spreitzer says, is that those issues are now a formal, high-level priority at the school.”
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December 11, 2014
Emma Seppälä in the Harvard Business Review:
“Forgiveness may be another soft-sounding term but, as University of Michigan researcher Kim Cameron shows points out, it has hard results: a culture of forgiveness in organizations can lead to increased employee productivity as well as less voluntary turnover. Again, the impact of a culture that is forgiving breeds trust. As a consequence, an organization becomes more resilient in times of organizational stress or down-sizing.”
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December 4, 2014
Faculty Associate Sue Ashford quoted in Human Resource Executive Online:
“Sue Ashford, chair of the management and organization department at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, had spent years as an academic examining subjects such as the propensity of organizations to inadvertently stifle ideas and innovation from within their own ranks.
“Yet, it wasn’t until Ashford herself assumed a leadership role that she realized how difficult it can be to respond to new ideas in a way that satisfies both parties.
” ‘It really shifted my perspective,’ she says.”
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December 2, 2014
By: Wayne Baker
Do you wait until the last minute to decide what to buy for holiday gifts? Or, have you been thinking about it for months, carefully compiling your list of just the right gifts for just the right people?
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November 20, 2014
By: Max Branson
“What is your vision for extraordinary leadership impact? I could get up and talk to you for forty-five minutes about what I think leadership should be, but at the end of the day, in order to make a connection between positive identities and positive leadership, the leadership vision itself has to be personal. [It has to] connect in some way to your source of inspiration. And your source of inspiration for leadership and action comes from who you are, how you see yourself, and the results you wish to create or contribute.”
With this message, Laura Morgan Roberts began her Positive Links Speaker Series session.
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November 17, 2014
Michael Pearn in the Huffington Post:
“The Center for Positive Organizations at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor is accumulating strong evidence that we perform at our best in positive rather than stressful or threatening environments. We do not have to risk burning out or being physically and psychologically unhealthy in order to succeed.”
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November 10, 2014
By: Chris Murchison
Business leaders support individuals and help them perform their best. But providing guidance and feedback to others can be challenging. People have shifting interests, concerns, and worries. So as a leader, you cannot support people unless you know what they think and how they feel. And this can only be done by asking meaningful questions and listening deeply.
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November 6, 2014
By: Jessica Amortegui
What’s love got to do with it?” Tina Turner made the question famously seductive. For many, it struck a truthful cord—in their personal lives at least. But recent research demonstrates the nostalgic phrase also extends into our work lives. In fact, if you have ever said “my boss is killing me”—and studies suggest that nine out of 10 employees have-—then you have been afflicted by the harrowing effects of workplace love.
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November 4, 2014
Chris White in Talent Management Magazine:
“We at the Center for Positive Organizations at the University of Michigan teach MBA students the skills to lead change without formally having the title of ‘leader.’ Many of the examples we use in teaching are of initiatives that represent ‘positive change,’ such as building a more humane workplace, developing products that are beneficial for less advantaged populations, advancing practices and processes that are better for the environment or creating a healthy relationship with the communities in which we work.”
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November 3, 2014
By: Adam Grant
When we’re launching a new business, we naturally turn to our friends. They’re the people we trust for sharing information and covering our backs. By recent estimates, 40% of founding teams include people who were friends socially before building their startups. But according to new research, starting a company with your friends is a risky endeavor.
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October 28, 2014
By: Max Branson
Hope. Little word, big concept. In their Positive Links Speaker Series session, Oana Branzei and Neil Hetherington broke it down. Hope is “forward-looking, a passion for what is possible.” It’s “rational, practical, and warranted.” And if you cultivate it, it can be transformational. But how do you do that?
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