First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 26, 2011

Quinn Jossey-Bass (1996) Note: The review that follows was posted more than ten years ago. Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within Robert E. I recently re-read the book and think more highly of it now than I did then. By chance rather than by choice, I read this book (at the insistence of a corporate [.].

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Leading Blog

APRIL 30, 2012

Choice Point: Do Not Let Your Culture Kill You by Robert Quinn @LeadWithLift. KevinEikenberry How Leaders Can Use Pinterest. How to Criticize — and Be Loved for it. @Leadershipfreak: If you know more than everyone on your team, you have a weak team. " 8 Ways to Find Freedom ". lead:ology - Leaders vs Managers: A False Dichotomy.

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Quinn White Paper Rogers Learning-by-Doing 261

The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 17, 2012

” - Jack Zenger, Joe Folkman, Bob Sherwin, and Barbara Steel, How to Be Exceptional: Drive Leadership Success by Magnifying Your Strengths. ”Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.” Self-perceptions make little difference.”

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Quinn Emotional Intelligence Goleman Workshop 58

Strategy Driven

MAY 14, 2020

People often choose to work for an organization because the culture “fits” their preferences for how they want to work. Kim Cameron and Robert Quinn (2011) have identified four cultures that are indicative of most organizations: clan, adhocracy, hierarchy and market. So, don’t be afraid of it.

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Motivation Quinn Stress Uncertainty 120

Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

On this week’s Asking For a Friend LIVE, Karin Hurt talks with resiliency and leadership development experts about how to sustain momentum when your team is tired. The post How Do I Sustain Momentum When My Team is Tired? You can also watch the Live Online recap on LinkedIn so you can see the […].

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

Lucia Luce Quinn is Chief People Officer at Forrester Research. Phil Johnston, an executive search leader at Spencer Stuart, confirms that Quinn’s initial reaction wasn’t unusual: “When a CEO asks a business leader to run HR, the most frequent response is ‘What did I do wrong?’ I push leaders.

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 13

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

How to Build Corporate Purpose Building an inspiring and effective corporate purpose means defining your values, vision, and mission and activating them across your organization. Another framework for developing a mission statement is to ask three questions: 1) What do we do really well as a company? Organizational experts Robert E.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

How to Build Corporate Purpose. Quinn and Anjan Thakor shared an experience they had while working with a global oil company that took a top-down approach to define the company’s purpose: “They [a task force assigned by the CEO] handed us a document representing months of work; it articulated a purpose, a mission, and a set of values.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

The best advice I ever got about how to handle these situations was from a kindergarten teacher (who also happens to be my wife). In another study , Joannn Quinn showed that physicians were more likely to be seen as effective leaders when they demonstrated a higher degree of shared vision in their relationships within the hospital.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2015

There is a considerable amount of paperwork and contingency planning that needs to happen and “it takes time for other people to figure out” how to manage your absence, Bailyn says. Talk openly with your coworkers about how best to divide your responsibilities. . “Don’t wait until the last minute,” though.

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Planning Quinn Project Contingency Plans 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2011

The next morning Betsy dropped off her laptop at her desk, poured herself a decaf coffee (though she desperately wanted a regular one), and walked up to the third floor to see Cara Quinn, one of the HR directors. Winded, she paused a moment outside Cara's door, surprised at how tired she already felt so early in the pregnancy.

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Case Study Travel Quinn Career 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2012

When Cara Quinn* first joined the educational technology company where she's worked for the past three years, she didn't take note of its maternity policy. Frame your negotiation as an exception to the existing policy — try to set it up as an experiment instead. Negotiate if you aren't in good standing as an employee.

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How To Policies Short-term Quinn 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Since justices do not always vote in accordance with the party of their nominating president, we used Martin-Quinn scores , the most common way to analyze judicial ideology, to determine how liberal or conservative each justice was. We expected that partisan differences could account for some portion of the interruptions.

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