By Center for POS
University of Michigan alumnus and Wharton School of Business Professor Adam Grant on his work with Google, and their use of the Job Crafting Exercise.
By Monica Worline, Jane Dutton, and members of Compassion Lab
As organizational researchers, we have a unique interest in understanding how compassion can be unleashed or stifled in human communities. An organizational lens attunes us to the important role played by routines and practices in grooving the ways we interact with one another. By routines we mean the recurring, repeated patterns of action that typify a particular organization or unit (Feldman & Pentland, 2003). Many organizational researchers think routines are key to...
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By Creating and Sustaining Positive Organizations
“When we tap potential that is untapped, we see things in new ways, and a whole new world of possibility opens up to us,” says Lift blogcofounder Robert E. Quinn. How do we tap that potential? Bob answers that question in a 13-minute talk at a conference modeled after the famed TED [...
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By Creating and Sustaining Positive Organizations
Sometimes I will ask a group, Did you know that organizations are political? This always brings a knowing laugh. The laugh suggests a question, Why would I ever ask about something so obvious? The laugh also demonstrates a fact. People have a natural understanding of h...
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By Creating and Sustaining Positive Organizations
We tend to accept that our current circumstances are heavily influenced by our genetics, culture, and past decisions.So here is a challenging question, When does the future determine the present? The normal belief that the past determines the present. But a recent workshop led me...
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By Creating and Sustaining Positive Organizations
I was doing a week of executive education with senior government leaders. Many had military backgrounds. In the middle of the week, one of them pulled me aside and told me why he had recently left a high-paying corporate job. Authenticity He said that, when he was an officer in the [...]...
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