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Beholden to accepted assumptions about people and organizations, too many enterprises waste real human probable. Robert Quinn shows how to defy convention and create organizations where people feel totally engaged and continuously rewarded, where - both independently and collectively - they flourish and go beyond expectations. The web that market leaders are carrying out a negative and constraining "mental map" that insists organizations must be rigid, top-down hierarchies and that the people in them are influenced mainly by self-interest and fear. But market leaders can adopt a different mental map, one where organizations are networks of fluid, evolving relationships and where people are motivated by a need to expand, learn, and provide a more substantial goal. Using dozens of memorable reports, Quinn represents specific actions market leaders may take to facilitate the emergence of the organizational culture - assisting people gain a feeling of purpose, engage in authentic discussions, see new alternatives, and sacrifice for the common good. The e book includes the positive group generator, an instrument that delivers 100 real-life methods from positive organizations and can help you reinvent them to fit your specific needs. Using the POG you can identify and use the methods that will have the greatest impact on your organization. At its heart, the e book helps market leaders see new alternatives that lay within the acknowledged realities of organizational life. It provides five keys for understanding how to be "bilingual" - speaking the traditional words of business as well as the words of the positive group. When market leaders can do this, they could make real and lasting change.
