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How to Be a Positive Leader
Year
2014
Language
ENGLISH
Publication Information
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Summary
Positive leaders are able to dramatically expand their peoplesand their owncapacity for excellence. And they accomplish this without enormous expenditures or huge heroic gestures. Here leading scholarsincluding Adam Grant, author of the bestselling Give and Take; positive organizational scholarship movement cofounders Kim Cameron and Robert Quinn; and thirteen moredescribe how this is being done at companies such as Wells Fargo, Ford, Kelly Services, Burts Bees, Connecticuts Griffin Hospital, the Michigan-based Zingermans Community of Businesses, and many others. They show that, like the butterfly in Brazil whose flapping wings create a typhoon in Texas, you can create profound positive change in your organization through simple actions and attitude shifts.