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Leading Thoughts for March 5, 2020

Leading Blog

Quinn on the connection between changing a system and understanding it: “Kurt Lewin argued that we cannot really begin to understand a system until we try to change it. He understood that individual as well as collective scripts would stay hidden until the normal way that the organization operates is challenged.

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How to Use Intelligent Failure and Controlled Chaos to Strengthen Agility Ability

The Practical Leader

In his article on “Crafting Strategy,” McGill University professor and management author, Henry Mintzberg, provides a good example of innovation and organizational learning in high-performing, agile organizations: “Out in the field, a salesman visits a customer. A new product emerges, which eventually opens up a new market.

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Mastering HR: Best HRM Books for Beginners to Read in 2024

HR Digest

Get ready to transform your organization and become the ultimate HR hero. The field of human resource management (HRM) encompasses vital tasks such as recruiting, screening, and developing employees for businesses. Talent Acquisition and Management Effective talent management is the backbone of any successful organization.

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How to Accelerate Lerning and Change Lives

Leading Blog

In a practical way, the authors—Robert Quinn, Katherine Heynoski, Mike Thomas and Gretchen Spreitzer—have developed a framework consisting of four themes at the center of highly effective teachers'' practice. The class transforms from a hierarchy to an adaptive learning organization.” We need organized chaos. Education'

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Workplace and Life Advice You Can Use

Leading Blog

The book is organized around 10 topics. Quinn : “Effective change leaders are not experts with a plan. Our most basic assumptions about organizations and authority are inherently disempowering.” This can change your life and make you one of the most valuable people in your organization.” Mental Maps. Workplace Practices.

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How To Be A More Effective Work-From-Home Employee

Eric Jacobson

Author Elaine Quinn wrote the book after working as a consultant for 10 years with small business owners who struggled with organization, time management, workflow processes, productivity and related challenges. The techniques Quinn teaches small home-based business owners also apply to work-from-home employees of large organizations.

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There's No Place Like Working From Home

Eric Jacobson

Author Elaine Quinn wrote the book after working as a consultant for 10 years with small business owners who struggled with organization, time management, workflow processes, productivity and related challenges. The techniques Quinn teaches small home-based business owners also apply to work-from-home employees of large organizations.

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