Robert E. Quinn has spent the last 40 years doing research, publishing, teaching, consulting, and speaking to more than half of the Fortune 500.

He is the Margaret Elliot Tracy Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business.  His research and writing focuses on purpose, leadership, culture and change. He is one of the leaders in the field of Positive Organizational Scholarship and a cofounder of the Center for Positive Organizations at the University of Michigan. He has published 18 books.  His book,  Deep Change is a long-term best seller and has been used across the planet. His book,  The Best Teacher in You won the Ben Franklin Award designating it the best book in education. His latest book is The Positive Organization: Breaking Free of Conventional Cultures, Constraints and Beliefs. His next book will be The Economics of Higher Purpose: Eight Counter Intuitive Steps for Creating a Purpose Driven Organization. He is particularly known for his work on the competing values framework which has been used by thousands of organizations.  His paper, Moments of Greatness: Entering the Fundamental State of Leadership, was selected by the Harvard Business Review as one of the ten Must Reads On Managing Yourself.

• Deep change is needed. Otherwise it is a slow death.
• “Knowledge is the ungrateful child of learning.”
• We go to great lengths to deny the need for change.
• Positive organization scholarship.
• The problem with thinking “I am powerless to try to change our system“
• We have evidence all around us that what we are thinking is wrong.
• If one teacher is doing it, that means it’s possible.
• The question is “What’s real?”
• The principal’s reference point is the middle of the curve.
• The way you change things is you begin to learn from excellence.
• We are looking for meaningful life, but something blocks us, that’s fear.
• Principals believe that their most valued contribution is to prevent conflict.
• Leadership is about creating conflict. Turn it into transformative cooperation.
• Realization of potential.
• Great teachers vs. good teachers.
• 4 variables: idealized influence, individualized concern, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation (using inquiry to stimulate change)!
• Love of learning transcends other challenges.
• People not marching to the drum of convention.
• We are all subject to the slow death.
• What result do I want to create?
• You’ve linked your identity
• Create the future that doesn’t yet exist.
• Each failure is a step to find out your potential.
• Purpose driven Life.
• The moment you commit to a purpose, you moralized your life.
• When you find out who you are, you find your true character.
• Your best self begins to emerge.
• Fail, fail, fail, then succeed.
• You develop transformative power.
• If you want to be a really good teacher…
• No matter what they say or do, every student wants to learn, every students wants to succeed.
• When you break that code, everything changes.
• Animate a community - put together things they want, nurture them, and then you can take it to the next level.
•  Henry Gradillas
• How to be a transformative principal? Sit down, and ask, what result do I want to create? Why am I on the earth? What’s my purpose in life? When I die how will the planet be different because I’m here. Am I internally connected? Am I other focused? Am I externally open?

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