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January 31, 2013
By: Robert E. Quinn
I had a dream. I was driving when the car in front of me stopped unexpectedly. I jammed on my brakes and stopped one inch short of its bumper. The episode filled me with so much adrenaline that I woke up. The event was a figment of my imagination, yet it triggered a physiological response that changed my reality. I moved from the condition of sleep to the condition of wakefulness. Lying there, I marveled at the power of my brain to create images of consequence.
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January 27, 2013
By: Robert E. Quinn
One reason I write a gratitude journal is to increase my positivity level. Sometimes it works. One morning after writing, for example, I drove to the University of Michigan, where I teach (as most Lift blog readers know). As I stepped out of the car, I was teeming with positivity. This is a big claim. How do I know that my claim is true? I know it is true because there was tangible evidence. First, I was full of joy. The feeling was real. Second, I had a huge smile on my face. The smile was real. Third, I began to change the world. The change in the world was real.
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January 27, 2013
By: Robert E. Quinn
Teaching people how to transform and how to stimulate transformation is very difficult. The life assumptions of normal people are tied to survival assumptions—not to flourishing.
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January 23, 2013
By: Robert E. Quinn
For 10 years, positive psychology and positive organizational scholarship have scientifically explored the value of examining things when they are operating at an extraordinary level. One line of research has shown the power of positive feelings and of virtues such as gratitude.
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January 22, 2013
“You MBAs are the root of all our financial troubles,” an old friend told me after the market collapse in 2008—shortly after I had quit my job and enrolled in a full-time MBA program.
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January 22, 2013
By: Robert E. Quinn
The movie Freedom Writers is about a teacher named Erin Gruwell. She enters an impoverished school and eventually learns how to connect with her students. She reaches extraordinary levels of performance, and her students change. At one point, she reflects on her teaching and she says, “I finally realized what I’m supposed to be doing, and I love it. When I’m helping these kids make sense of their lives, everything about my life makes sense to me. How often does a person get that?”
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January 21, 2013
By: Robert E. Quinn
When I teach, my objective is not to transfer information to my students. It is to transform their identities. My history as a teacher tells me that if I can accomplish this objective, they will experience a huge jump in their capacity to influence their own lives and the lives of others. To accomplish my objective, I must have them do something unusual.
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January 16, 2013
By: Chris White
Enjoy! http://nextbillion.net/blogpost.aspx?blogid=3109
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January 15, 2013
Betsy Erwin brings a great depth and breadth of experience in Career Development to her new role building CPOS Labs, a program for student engagement at the Center for POS, as well as a deep appreciation for what POS can bring to the students, and through them, to the world. Some of the program’s ambitious goals are already being realized as the first cadre of students work on projects to expand our social media presence, assist faculty in translating research concepts into marketable tools and white papers, and investigate the viability of new degree programs.
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January 12, 2013
By: Chris White
Professor Jane Dutton talks about how the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship was founded, emerging out of the tragedy of September 11th, 2001.
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January 11, 2013
By: Ryan W. Quinn
I had an experience this week that is both wonderful and embarrassing: I actually applied some basic principles of positive organizational scholarship in my own life. They worked—that’s the wonderful part. And it was embarrassing because I went through many weeks and a million excuses before I finally did what I knew was necessary, what would work, and what I am devoting my professional career to sharing. Why is it so hard to do what I know I should do?
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January 8, 2013
By: Chris White
Professor Kim Cameron, from the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship, has spent much of his career studying organizational virtuousness. How do attributes such as compassion, generosity, forgiveness and so forth get institutionalized into the processes, systems, strategies, culture of organizations?
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