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The Economics of Higher Purpose

Two distinguished scholars offer eight steps to help organizations discover and embrace an authentic higher purpose—somet...

  • Staggering Potential Left Untapped

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    Staggering Potential Left Untapped

    This is excerpted from Chapter 13 of Lift, 2nd Edition. Shawn Quinn (Bob’s son and Ryan’s brother) once worked with a woman who told him a story about a project that she was assigned to lead. The project was important to the work of the organization, and required a team with members of differe...

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    September 4, 2015

  • Embracing the Common Good

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    Embracing the Common Good

    The following is an excerpt from Chapter 6 of The Positive Organization. “Did you know that organizations are political?”   When this question is posed to a class of executives the response is usually a low laugh. The laugh signifies that the question surfaces something so obvious that it is s...

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    August 27, 2015

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