Robert E. Quinn

This third edition of Competing Values Leadership serves as the key source for understanding and using the Competing Values Framework, one of the most widely used and highly cited frameworks in the world for understanding human behavior, leadership, and organizations. The authors of the framework, who have been at the foundation of developing, applying, and studying this framework for more than four decades, explain how it helps foster successful leadership, innovation, culture change, financial performance, organizational effectiveness, and value creation.In addition to explaining why the Competing Values Framework is among the most important frameworks in the history of business, this edition addresses some criticisms of the framework and provides empirical evidence for its validity, reliability, and usefulness. The authors also provide practical tools and actions that can assist any organization in improving its performance.This book is widely applicable to several fields, including financial strategy, culture change, human resource management, leadership roles, and organizational change. Both academics and business leaders will find it to be an illuminating and useful tool and reference. It has also proven to be a valuable resource in executive education programs.

This third edition of Competing Values Leadership serves as the key source for understanding and using the Competing Values Framework, one of the most widely used and highly cited frameworks in the world for understanding human behavior, leadership, and organizations. The authors of the framework, who have been at the foundation of developing, applying, and studying this framework for more than four decades, explain how it helps foster successful leadership, innovation, culture change, financial performance, organizational effectiveness, and value creation.In addition to explaining why the Competing Values Framework is among the most important frameworks in the history of business, this edition addresses some criticisms of the framework and provides empirical evidence for its validity, reliability, and usefulness. The authors also provide practical tools and actions that can assist any organization in improving its performance.This book is widely applicable to several fields, including financial strategy, culture change, human resource management, leadership roles, and organizational change. Both academics and business leaders will find it to be an illuminating and useful tool and reference. It has also proven to be a valuable resource in executive education programs.

Integrating theory and empirical evidence, Becoming a Master helps students and future managers master the dynamics and intricacies of the modern business environment. The text's unique "competing values framework" provides a deep and holistic understanding of what is required to effectively manage any type of organization. Readers learn to develop and apply critical managerial skills that encourage change, promote adaptability, build stability, maintain continuity, strengthen commitment and cohesion, and yield positive organizational results. The seventh edition features new and revised content throughout, offering students a comprehensive and up-to-date presentation of critical management competencies and their underlying theoretical value intentions and real-life application. Throughout the text, classroom-tested exercises enable students to assess, analyze, practice, and apply the material while gaining insight into the paradoxes and contradictions that make the practice of management so complex.

Det bästa från Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Review är världens mest inflytelserika tidskrift inom management. Den vänder sig till beslutsfattare över hela världen och ges ut av Harvard University i Boston. Här har de samlat de tio mest betydelsefulla artiklarna OM ATT LEDA SIG SJÄLV, skrivna av ledande experter och forskare som Clayton M. Christensen, Diane L. Coutu, Peter F. Drucker, Stewart D. Friedman, Daniel Goleman och Robert S. Kaplan. Utgångspunkten för boken är att din framgång som ledare börjar med en kritisk blick i spegeln. Kapitelrubriker som Vilken måttstock använder du i ditt liv och Frågor att ställa till dig själv kommer garanterat att ge dig nya perspektiv på din chefsroll och ditt uppdrag. De tio artiklarna hjälper dig lära känna dig själv som ledare och identifiera möjliga förbättringar. Genom självkännedom och vetskap om dina starka sidor kommer du som ledare att kunna uppnå din sanna potential. I serien ingår även Harvard Business Review: Om ledarskap.

Conventional beliefs and cultures all too often create work groups, departments, and even entire organizations that are full of unengaged, underperforming people. Drawing on his decades of pioneering research, Robert Quinn shows how to create organizations where people flourish and exceed expectations. Using many compelling stories and examples Quinn describes how to replace an outmoded and limiting conventional mind set with a new, more positive and affirming mental map. He explains how, with this as your foundation, you can clarify the highest purpose of your organization, help others access their own excellence, communicate honestly and authentically, and much more. The book includes The Positive Organization Generator, a tool any leader can use to develop a custom action plan for turning an organization positive. At its heart, Quinn's book helps leaders transform organizations by changing themselves and others from being comfort-centred to being results-centred, from being self-focused to being other-focused, and from being internally closed to being externally open.

Just as the Wright Brothers combined science and practice to finally realize the dream of flight, Ryan and Robert Quinn combine research and personal experience to demonstrate how to reach a psychological state that lifts us and those around us to greater heights of achievement, integrity, openness, and empathy. The updated edition of this award - winning book - honored by Utah State University's Huntsman School of Business, Benedictine University, and the LeadershipNow web site - - includes two new chapters, one describing a learning process and social media platform the Quinns created to help people experience lift and the other sharing new insights into tapping into human potential.

Værdiskabelsens paradokser præsenterer en teoretisk ramme, der kan hjælpe ledere til en dybere og mere nuanceret forståelse af værdiskabelse og en mere effektiv værdiskabelse i praksis. Denne ramme – teorien om konkurrerende værdier (The Competing Values Framework eller CVL), som er blevet udpeget som en af de 40 vigtigste erhvervsteorier i historien – hjælper ledere til at få øje på nyt potentiale i organisationslivets spændinger.Teorien om konkurrerende værdier handler om, at værdi skabes, når en organisation udvikler kompetencer inden for fire konkurrerende antagelser: Kontrol, Konkurrence, Skabelse og Samarbejde. Den grundlæggende tanke er, at teorien kan hjælpe ledere frem til en både-og-tænkning ved at fokusere på integration af konkurrerende værdier. På denne måde bliver tilsyneladende modstridende og modsatrettede prioriteringer kombineret på måder, der fører til skabelse af ??værdi. Denne danske version af Cameron, Quinn, DeGraff og Thakors klassiske bog indeholder en fyldig introduktion skrevet af Andreas Granhof Juhl og Jakob Nørlem. Her beskrives det, hvordan teorien om paradokser i værdiskabelse har givet nyt liv til organisationsudvikling i fire danske organisationer. Bogen henvender sig til ledere, som gerne vil fremstå mere målrettede, integrere forskellige fremgangsmåder og finde ny inspiration til ledelse. Også konsulenter, HR-afdelinger, studerende og andre med interesse for ledelse og værdiskabelse vil kunne finde teknikker og inspiration.

What does teaching look like at its very best? How are great teachers able to ignite a love of learning and change students' lives? In this book you'll learn from seven remarkable teachers who stretch beyond the conventional foundations of good teaching to transform their classrooms into exciting, dynamic places where teachers and students cocreate the learning experience. Based on six years of extensive work, the book outlines a framework that identifies four dimensions of effective teaching and learning that are integrated in these highly effective teachers' classrooms - and that all teachers can use to recognize and release the potential in themselves and their students.

Two leaders of the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship (Robert Quinn and Gretchen Spreitzer) combine with two leaders of Battelle for Kids (Katherine Heynoski and Mike Thomas) to offer a powerful new understanding of the mindsets, behaviors, and change processes of highly effective teachers. What these experts found in their research and their work with teachers and students upends our normal expectations about how to engage students and what learning is. They show how great teachers embrace and dance with the tensions in schools, students, and learning that hinder other teachers. They reveal how great teachers transform their own identities and the identities of their students so everyone becomes a lifelong learner. And they provide vivid examples and inspiring stories of practical ways to accelerate learning among children, youth, and adults.

* Hva er organisasjonskultur? * Hvordan kan du beskrive kulturen i din organisasjon? * Hvor godt er kulturen tilpasset strategien og de nye utfordringer og krav organisasjonen står overfor? * Hvilken miks av verdier er viktig i din organisasjon? * Hvilken lederkompetanse trengs? Forfatterne ønsker med boken Identifisering og endring av organisasjonskultur å hjelpe deg med slike spørsmål. De gir ingen lettvinte svar og raske oppskrifter, men presenterer et velprøvd analytisk rammeverk og en metodikk for å kunne identifisere og endre organisasjonskultur og ledelseskompetanse. Forfatterne tar utgangspunkt i etablert teori, et omfattende empirisk materiale og egen konsulentpraksis. Grunnholdningen deres er analytisk, pragmatisk og konstruktiv. Cameron og Quinn får frem at verden er tvetydig og utspiller seg i paradoksene. De vet at det er krevende å få til bevisste endringer av organisasjonskultur, men at det nettopp derfor er viktig å vite hva man gjør. Boken har blitt en internasjonal bestselger innen fagbøker, med stor aksept både i akademia og blant praktikere. Den norske oversettelsen er basert på 3. utgave av Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture fra 2012. Boken bygger på det anerkjente «The Competing Value Framework», som er et rammeverk for å identifisere og endre organisasjonskultur og ledelsesprofil. Dette rammeverket, sammen med praktiske verktøy som presenteres i boken, gjør det lettere å gå fra analyse til handling og gjennomføring. Boken egner seg godt for studenter på bachelor- og masternivå. Den er også spesielt nyttig for ledere på alle nivå, og for dem som jobber med organisasjons- og lederutvikling i stabsfunksjoner eller som konsulenter. Professor Torodd Strand, forfatter av boken «Ledelse, organisasjon og kultur»: «Ouinn og Cameron har levert eit svært viktig bidrag til organisasjonsanalyse ved sine tankar om "konkurrerande verdiar" og ulike organisasjonskulturar. Modellane og metodikken er bygd på truverdig teori prøvd på store mengder data. Firedelinga av kulturtypar; hierarki, marknad, klan og adhockrati gir intuitiv meining. Ved kartlegging etter denne metoden kan den einskilde få stoff til refleksjon og organisasjonar instruktivt materiale til eigenanalyse og utviklingsarbeid. Etter kvart som denne metoden blir tatt i bruk, vil vi kunne få norske referansepunkt for ulike bransjar og sektorar.» Per Tronsmo, Utdanningsdirektoratet: «Cameron og Quinn tilbyr et teoretisk rammeverk som også lett kan brukes praktisk. Det har vært med på å danne bakgrunnen for de kompetansekravene og det rammeverket som ligger til grunn for den nasjonale rektorutdanningen i Norge. Det knytter sammen organisasjon og ledelse på en utmerket måte. Rammeverket har også vært benyttet av AFF i en rekke utviklingsprosjekter, både i offentlig og privat virksomhet.»Les utdrag fra boka

How to realize your own leadership potential Based on the bestselling book, Deep Change, The Deep Change Field Guide takes readers through the introspective journey of personal transformation. The field guide streamlines, updates, and augments the content of the original book into an interactive self-teaching course that helps readers learn how to become powerful agents of change. Learning tools include reflection questions, film assignments, and action plans that help readers think about the concepts in terms of their own situations, and identify actions to embody the concepts in their lives. The field guide has been carefully designed so that individual learners can gain the same benefits that students have long enjoyed in the author's courses, and the learning tools also lend themselves to both the academic and professional classroom. Complements to Robert Quinn's bestselling book Deep ChangeIncludes exercise, reflective questions, and worksheets throughoutProvides reader with a "self-help" guide to overcoming the personal and professional obstacles that prevent transformational leadership For anyone who yearns to be an internally driven leader, to motivate the people around them, and develop a satisfying work life, The Deep Change Field Guide holds the key.

The Third Edition of this key resource provides a means of understanding and changing organizational culture in order to make organizations more effective. It provides validated instruments for diagnosing organizational culture and management competency; a theoretical framework (competing values) for understanding organizational culture; and a systematic strategy and methodology for changing organizational culture and personal behavior. New edition includes online versions of the MSAI and OCAI assessments and new discussions of the implications of national cultural profiles.

Building the Bridge As You Walk On It tells the personal stories of people who have embraced deep change and inspired author Robert Quinn to take his concept one step further and develop a new model of leadership—“the fundamental state of leadership.” The exploration of this transformative state is at the very heart of the book. Quinn shows how anyone can enter the fundamental state of leadership by engaging in the eight practices that center on the theme of ever-increasing integrity—reflective action, authentic engagement, appreciative inquiry, grounded vision, adaptive confidence, detached interdependence, responsible freedom, and tough love. After each chapter, Quinn challenges you to assess yourself with respect to each practice and to formulate a strategy for personal growth.

When Robert Quinn's son Garrett went away to college, he was frustrated and wondered how he could shake off his feelings of depression and anxiety. It was a transition that was difficult for both father and son. Bob finally realized that Garrett didn't need to be fixed; he needed his father's love and support. Bob invited Garrett to exchange letters, and together they embarked on an extraordinary journey. Their letters explore myriad topics— how to find purpose, live with increased meaning and power, and how we can clarify our core values. But the most important lesson learned is that human progress begins when individuals choose to transform themselves.

To be successful in today's business environment, organizations need the knowledge, ideas, energy, and creativity of every employee. The best companies accomplish this by turning themselves into a company of leaders--an organization in which employees at every level take the initiative and act as though the business where their own. Gretchen M. Spreitzer and Robert E. Quinn draw on ten years of empirical research to show how employee empowerment can transform a workforce and create a very real competitive advantage. They describe five key disciplines that help empower employees to take initiative, be more innovative, engage in transformational change, and act as leaders. And they provide real-life examples specific tools and strategies that will help you to put those disciplines to work in your own organization.A Book in the University of Michigan Business School Series

In this empowering book, Robert E. Quinn, author of the highly successful and influential Deep Change, gives readers the courage to use personal transformation to positively impact their home life, work life, and communities -- to be what he refers to as "inner-directed and outer-focused." We are all potential change agents, but most of us are trapped by belief that we as individuals cannot make a difference. Informed by the teachings of Jesus, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. -- three of the most successful change agents ever -- Quinn outlines eight steps each of us can take to move ourselves and others to the highest levels of excellence. Following his advice, each of us can access and apply the power that lies within us in ways that will change our world for the better.

Don't let your company kill you! Open this book at your own risk. It contains ideas that may lead to a profound self-awakening. An introspective journey for those in the trenches of today's modern organizations, Deep Change is a survival manual for finding our own internal leadership power. By helping us learn new ways of thinking and behaving, it shows how we can transform ourselves from victims to powerful agents of change. And for anyone who yearns to be an internally driven leader, to motivate the people around them, and return to a satisfying work life, Deep Change holds the key.

Draws together extensive research on leadership, change, and organizational performance to help leaders make sense of the complexities and contradictions of organizational life. Explains how managers can come to see new possibilities for structuring organizations, designing jobs, and solving daily problems by learning to embrace and transcend paradoxes.