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Leading Thoughts for October 1, 2020

Leading Blog

Robert Quinn on real leadership: “Leadership is not about results. The entire management literature fails to understand this. Leadership authors do not understand that leadership means “Go forth and die.” It is about commitment. Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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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. Source: Decade of Change : Managing in Times of Uncertainty. * * *. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives.

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

HR Digest

The field of human resource management (HRM) encompasses vital tasks such as recruiting, screening, and developing employees for businesses. The top books of 2024 delve into key areas like leadership, organizational culture, and employee relations. Get ready to transform your organization and become the ultimate HR hero.

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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. There seem to be two key reasons.

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How to Accelerate Lerning and Change Lives

Leading Blog

In a co-creative, collaborative environment, students hold each other accountable, leadership is shared, and new perspectives emerge. 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.

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Workplace and Life Advice You Can Use

Leading Blog

T HIRTY-NINE LEADERS were interviewed on subjects related to leadership and were assembled by Roger Dean Duncan into LeaderSHOP Volume 1: Workplace, Career, and Life Advice from Today’s Top Thought Leaders (not to be confused with the LeaderShop ). Quinn : “Effective change leaders are not experts with a plan. Career Management.

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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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