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Lift
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 elevates us and those around us to greater heights of achievement, integrity, openness, and empathy. It's the psychological equivalent of aerodynamic lift, and it is the fundamental state of leadership. This book draws on recent advances in positive psychology and organizational science to describe four questions that, when asked in any situation, will help us experience the fundamental state of leadership. Engaging personal stories illustrate how the Quinns and others have applied these concepts at work, at home, and in the community. --
The Positive Organization
Beholden to accepted assumptions about people and organizations, too many enterprises waste human potential. Robert Quinn shows how to defy convention and create organizations where people feel fully engaged and continually rewarded, where both individually and collectively they flourish and exceed expectations. The problem is that leaders are following a negative and constraining “mental map” that insists organizations must be rigid, top-down hierarchies and that the people in them are driven mainly by self-interest and fear. But leaders can adopt a different mental map, one where organizations are networks of fluid, evolving relationships and where people are motivated by a desire to g...
The Fully Alive Preacher
Mike Graves begins this book with the question "If preaching is intended to enliven the church, why is it killing so many ministers?" His answer? Because preaching has become divorced from the vitality and diversity of the preacher's daily life. He invites preachers to discover how preaching can be renewing rather than draining.
The Sanctuary Cabin
The Sanctuary Cabin is a novel that personifies the reality that sometimes life throws us a curve ball. Unfortunately, in some situations these untimely events are not just a matter of merely an inconvenience. Over time the cabin proves to be a sanctuary for several families, as a matter of life and death.Joshua and Susan Ritter were at the threshold of their golden years. Joshua had retired from a family business and the slightly aging couple was ready to travel and see the world. In a twist in life, Joshua soon finds himself alone and on a cross-country motorcycle journey. In his attempt to be a Good Samaritan, Joshua finds, as a matter of life and death, needing a place to hide.Dawn Wood was living her dream vocation as a cook when a murder changes her status from a cherished employee to that of a slave. Dawn finds herself rescued, yet running for her life.The cabin was built deep in the woods as a sanctuary place. However, the success of the cabin as being a safe place for Joshua Ritter and Dawn Wood also depends on the neighbors and community at large to demonstrate the strength of family.
Kill Your Darlings
Rose loves nothing more than to play pretend in a magical land of her own creation. To her, that world is as real as our ownÑfrom her fluffy friends to the terrible evil that lurks at the center of it all. In one night, the line between fantasy and reality will disappear, an ancient hunger will feed again, and Rose will be pulled into a gruesome saga that began centuries before her birth. Debut writers ETHAN S. PARKER & GRIFFIN SHERIDAN and master artists BOB QUINN (Knights of X, Black Cat Social Club) and JOHN J. HILL (VANISH, CROSSOVER) are proud to present a fantastic nightmare years in the making.Ê Collects KILL YOUR DARLINGS #1-8
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Heartbreak and Heroism
Accounts of some of the most dramatic search-and-rescue operations ever attempted in Canada.
Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture
Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture provides a framework, a sense-making tool, a set of systematic steps, and a methodology for helping managers and their organizations carefully analyze and alter their fundamental culture. Authors, Cameron and Quinn focus on the methods and mechanisms that are available to help managers and change agents transform the most fundamental elements of their organizations. The authors also provide instruments to help individuals guide the change process at the most basic level—culture. Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture offers a systematic strategy for internal or external change agents to facilitate foundational change that in turn makes it possible to support and supplement other kinds of change initiatives.
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