How did a campy, low-budget video game featuring B-movie actors and fake vampires provoke a massive federal moral panic, forcing the United States Senate to threaten the outright censorship of an entire multi-billion-dollar entertainment industry? The 1993 congressional hearings regarding the game Night Trap fundamentally rewired the modern cultural landscape. As the Sega CD introduced "Full-Motion Video" (FMV) to gaming, the visual fidelity of games jumped from cartoon sprites to actual f...

Building the Bridge As You Walk On It tells the personal stories of people who have embraced deep change and inspired author Robert Quinn to take his concept one step further and develop a new model of leadershipthe fundamental state of leadership. The exploration of this transformative state is at the very heart of the book. Quinn shows how anyone can enter the fundamental state of leadership by engaging in the eight practices that center on the theme of ever-increasing integrityreflectiv...

Two distinguished scholars offer eight steps to help organizations discover and embrace an authentic higher purpose-something that will dramatically improve every aspect of any enterprise, including the bottom line.Managers are taught that employees are self-interested and work resistant, so they create systems of control to combat these expectations. The result? These gloomy assumptions become self-fulfilling prophecies, workforces tend to underperform and resist control, and mana...

Continuing his groundbreaking work in Positive Organizational Scholarship, Robert Quinn (bestselling author of Deep Change) offers a clear path and concrete actions for creating extraordinarily high-performing organizational cultures.Conventional beliefs and cultures all too often create work groups, departments, and even entire organizations that are full of unengaged, underperforming people. Drawing on his decades of pioneering research, Robert Quinn shows how to create organizat...

A guide to leading with your best self, which in turn drives others to be their best.NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATEDJust 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 lifts us and those around us to greater heights of achievement, integrity, openness, and empathy. The updated edition of this awa...

Prince Lucas and Lady Clara try to change the future set in the stars in this twenty-third magical adventure of The Kingdom of Wrenly series!The Kingdom of Wrenly’s latest trend is reading your fortune written among the stars. Prince Lucas is skeptical until his unlucky fortune starts coming true, too. Can stars really decide your luck? Lucas and Clara embark on a nighttime adventure to find out—but no prediction could have prepared them for meeting mysterious cons...

How to realize your own leadership potentialBased on the bestselling book, Deep Change, The Deep Change Field Guide takes readers through the introspective journey of personal transformation. The field guide streamlines, updates, and augments the content of the original book into an interactive self-teaching course that helps readers learn how to become powerful agents of change. Learning tools include reflection questions, film assignments, and action pla...

The Third Edition of this key resource provides a means of understanding and changing organizational culture in order to make organizations more effective. It provides validated instruments for diagnosing organizational culture and management competency; a theoretical framework (competing values) for understanding organizational culture; and a systematic strategy and methodology for changing organizational culture and personal behavior. New edition includes online versions of the ...

Let your child’s mission transform your whole family. This empowering book will teach you how to turn the pain of separation in to joyful communion. Learn to read and write by the Spirit, making each letter from home a precious message that draws you and your missionary closer to God and to each other. Realize the promised blessings of missionary service for your entire family as you serve the Lord together.

In my memories and dreams I still walk the streets of Cabbagetown. Now an older man trying to capture something of my youth to explain to you those feelings of rock bottom loneliness and hunger, as I walk away from that old apartment, I am changed. I am different – for now, I know what love is. It seems so simple to me, but was very difficult for my family. They were incapable of love. I understand that now.

Come Sit Next to Me takes the reader on the journey of a lifetime, directly to the ancient Silk Road of Central Asia. Join the author during every stage of preparation, experience every culture shock, and gain a real sense of what isolation can feel like living in a traditional, rural Muslim community. Robert OQuinns style of writing draws the reader into the narrative with the authors descriptive prose and detailed accounts. His job was to find a way to teach English in a mountain village...

Welcome to the Kingdom of Wrenly—a new chapter book series full of fantasy and adventure.Meet Lucas, the eight year-old prince, and Clara, the daughter of the queen’s seamstress. Lucas is an only child who longs to make friends and go on adventures. Clara knows the kingdom well, so she and Lucas team up and explore the lands of Wrenly!In The Lost Stone, Lucas and Clara search for Queen Tasha’s missing emerald. On their exciting adventure, they trav...