Knowledge Center
Quest is dedicated to supporting individuals and organizations in their commitment to continuous improvement and lifelong learning. We consider learning and the ongoing integration and application of life experiences to be the essential components in cultivating peoples' capacity, and that of the cultures that they live in, to evolve in healthy and sustainable ways.
We believe that what we know today will not be adequate to survive and thrive in the future therefore continuous learning and growth are essential to our well being. The reality of the world is that individuals organizations and cultures are constantly shifting and changing across a diverse cross-section of social, political, environmental, economic, educational, technological and scientific domains.
Our Knowledge Center offers our visitors access to a wide array of articles, papers, links and resources that will provide a rich learning environment to assist in navigating the complexities of leading in the emerging workplace. We encourage you to share information freely within your network, and welcome your input and contribution of additional resources to this vital, organic learning community.
Articles by Andre Mamprin
- The Evolution of the Next Organization
- Trust: The Ultimate Barrier
- Welcome to the Knowledge Based Network Economy
- Generating Results from Strategy
- Welcome to the Network Economy
- Creating the Next Generation Organization
- Creating Knowledge Ecologies
- Leadership for an Emerging Era
- Next in Line
Compass
- Leadership Compass - Issue 11 Summer 2004
- Leadership Compass - Issue 12 Winter 2005
- Leadership Compass - Issue 13 Summer 2005
Q3 Publications
- Guide
to Effective Investor Relations [Contents]
- [Pt. 1] Setting the Stage
- [Pt. 2] IR Framework
- [Pt. 3] Step by Step Guide
- [Pt. 4] Putting it all Together
- [Pt. 5] Sample Documents
Articles Library
- Applied Systems Thinking 2 [.pdf]
- Appreciative Inquiry [.pdf]
- Artists and Leadership [.pdf]
- Best Books [.pdf]
- Creative Leadership [.pdf]
- Crisis and Renewal [.pdf]
- Denison Linking Culture Performance [.pdf]
- Denison Bringing Culture [.pdf]
- Denison Culture Family [.pdf]
- Denison Paradox [.pdf]
- Improvising Org [.pdf]
- Improvising Organization [.pdf]
- Introduction to Complexity [.pdf]
- Johari-Ritter-Rohr [.pdf]
- Narrative Inquiry [.pdf]
- Rise of the Creative Class [.pdf]
- Storytelling [.pdf]
- Systems Thinking [.pdf]
- The Curse of the Creative Class [.pdf]
- A Blueprint for
Leadership Success [.pdf]
by Andrey Smith & Robert W. Rogers - Appreciative Inquiry [.pdf]
- Architectural Primer for Knowledge
Innovation [.pdf]
By Debra M. Amidon - Art and Economy [.pdf]
- Art Based Learning and Organizations [.pdf]
- The Art of Underengineering
[ .pdf]
by Christian Koehler and Robert Weissbarth - Arts and Organizations [.pdf]
- Artful Leadership [.pdf]
- Blended Learning
Research Report [.pdf]
by Tammy Dewar & Dave Whittington - Beyond Values
[.pdf]
by John Burdett - Brain Storming [.pdf]
- Canada's Potential [.pdf]
- Collaborating
For Innovation [.pdf]
Conference Board of Canada - Collaborating to Innovate [.pdf]
- Collaboration [.pdf]
- Compass (May 2004)
[.pdf]
Leadership Development - The Banff Centre - Competency Profiling
and Learning Contracts [.pdf]
by Doug Macnamara - Complex Acts of Knowing [.pdf]
- Conductive Organizations [.pdf]
- Corporate Knights Methodology [.pdf]
- Creativity and Improvisation
in Jazz [.pdf]
by Frank J. Barrett - Creativity and Innovation [.pdf]
- Culture [.pdf]
- Developing Leaders
[.pdf]
by Mara Melum - Does Leadership Training
Make a Difference? [.pdf]
by Carol Woltring et al - Dynamic Nature of Knowledge [.pdf]
- Emotional Intelligence: Overview,
Applicability and Value [.pdf]
by Jim Ruberg - The Entovation Story:
A Vision of Knowledge [.pdf]
by Debra Amidon - Failing to Learn and Learning
to Fail (Intelligently) [.pdf]
by Mark D. Cannon - Foundations of Innovation [.pdf]
- Framing Improv and a True Experiential
Learning Tool [.pdf]
S.I.B. 2003 - Idea Virus [.pdf]
- IFF The
Enlightened Corporation [.pdf]
International Futures Forum - Improv [.pdf]
- Innovators Advantage [.pdf]
- ISVA Method [.pdf]
- KM - A
Sociotechnical Perspective [.pdf]
(ed Steve Clarke) - The Knowledge Audit
[.pdf]
by Jay Liebowitz et al - Knowing in Your Gut [.pdf]
by Steven S. Taylor - Knowledge Management
and the Dynamic Nature of Knowledge [.pdf]
by Claire McInerney - Leadership: A Contact Sport [.pdf]
- Leadership and Management [.pdf]
- Leadership at
Internet Speed [.pdf]
By Doug Macnamara - Leadership Development Best Practices [.pdf]
- Leading Innovation
[.pdf]
Canadian Association of Distance Education - Leading with Soul and Conviction [.pdf]
- Leverage Points:
Places to Intervene in a System [.pdf]
by Donella Meadows - Leaving Work [.pdf]
Conference Board of Canada - Locating the Energy
for Change [.pdf]
by Charles Elliott - The Long Emergency [.pdf]
- Nasa Strategic [.pdf]
- Networks 10 Qs [.pdf]
- New Sciences and Leadership [.pdf]
- On Performance Culture - White Paper [.pdf]
- Organizational Culture and Change [.pdf]
- Organizational Learning - KM [.pdf]
- Organizing Creative Process [.pdf]
- Participatory Design:
The Third Space in HCI [.pdf]
by Michael J. Juller - The Power of Presence [.pdf]
- Praxis Pentagon of Organizational Learning [.pdf]
- Quiet Leaders [.pdf]
- Raising Your Return on Innovation
Investment [.pdf]
by Alexander Kandybin and Martin Kihn - Relational Aesthetics [.pdf]
- Revenge of the Right Brain [.pdf]
- Sensemaking [.pdf]
- Social
Network Analysis for KM [.pdf]
by Patti Anklam - Theory U [.pdf]
- Triple Helix KM [.pdf]
- Voice Mail Jail [.pdf]
- Why the World is Flat [.pdf]
Presentations
- Coming soon...
Media Room
- The
Leadership Track
- By Kristin Merriman-Clarke
- [Executive Update Online]
- How
to: retain talent
- By Karen Kelly
- [Profitguide.com]
- Next
in line: five steps for succesful succession planning
- By Andre Mamprin
- [Center for Association Leadership]
- Banff:
training knowledge leadership
- By Yvonne Buma
- [Knowledge Connections]
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