Robert Quinn

Lift: the Fundamental State of Leadership Robert Quinn

Publisher Marketing: Lift describes four mindsets that, together, enable us to have a consistently positive influence. Ryan and Robert Quinn combine research and experience to demonstrate how we can elevate ourselves and the situations and people around us to greater heights of integrity, openness, and achievement - the psychological equivalent of aerodynamic lift. Although there are exercises and tools throughout to help you understand and apply the authors' lift framework - as well as compelling stories of personal and professional applications of lift - this is not a book about tactics. Rather, the Quinns challenge you to ask: What can I do to be a positive influence? Contributor Bio:  Quinn, Robert Robert E. Quinn holds the Margaret Elliot Tracey Collegiate Professorship at the University of Michigan and serves on the faculty of Organization and Management at the Ross Business School. He is one of the co-founders and the current faculty co-director of the Center for Positive Organizations. He is particularly known for his work on the Competing Values Framework. He has 30 years of experience consulting with major corporations and government agencies. Contributor Bio:  Quinn, Ryan Ryan W. Quinn is assistant professor of business administration at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. His research has appeared in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, and Human Resource Management. He also serves on the editorial board of Organization Science. Contributor Bio:  Shepherd, Wayne Wayne Shepherd has been featured as the host of many Christian radio programs for over 35 years, many of those years with WMBI and Moody Broadcasting in Chicago.