How to Be a Positive Leader
Small Actions, Big Impact
1st Edition
Published on 2. June 2014
232 pages
978-1-62656-030-7 (ISBN)
Description
Positive leaders are able to dramatically expand their people's-and their own-capacity for excellence. And they accomplish this without enormous expenditures or huge heroic gestures. Here leading scholars-including Adam Grant, author of the bestselling Give and Take; positive organizational scholarship movement cofounders Kim Cameron and Robert Quinn; and thirteen more-describe how this is being done at companies such as Wells Fargo, Ford, Kelly Services, Burt's Bees, Connecticut's Griffin Hospital, the Michigan-based Zingerman's 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.
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Jane E. Dutton is the Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Business Administration and Psychology at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.
Content
Foreword-Shawn Achor
Invitation-Jane Dutton and Gretchen Spreitzer
Part I. Foster Positive Relationships
Chapter 1: Build High Quality Relationships-Jane E. Dutton
Chapter 2: Outsource Inspiration-Adam M. Grant
Chapter 3: Negotiate Mindfully-Shirli Kopelman and Ramaswami Mahalingam
Part II. Unlock Resources from Within
Chapter 4: Enable Thriving at Work--Gretchen M. Spreitzer and Christine Porath
Chapter 5: Cultivate Positive Identities-Laura Morgan Roberts
Chapter 6: Engage in Job Crafting--Amy Wrzesniewski
Part III. Tap into the Good
Chapter 7: Activate Virtuousness-Kim Cameron
Chapter 8: Lead an Ethical Organization-David M. Mayer
Chapter 9: Imbue the Organization with Higher Purpose-Robert E. Quinn and Anjan V.Thakor
Part IV. Create Resourceful Change
Chapter 10: Cultivate Hope: Found, Not Lost--Oana Branzei
Chapter 11: Create Micro-Moves for Organizational Change--Karen Golden-Biddle
Chapter 12: Treat Employees as Resources not Resistors--Scott Sonenshein
Chapter 13: Create Opportunity from Crisis--Lynn Perry Wooten, Erika Hayes James
Epilogue and Looking Forward-Gretchen M. Spreitzer and Jane E. Dutton
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Authors
Invitation-Jane Dutton and Gretchen Spreitzer
Part I. Foster Positive Relationships
Chapter 1: Build High Quality Relationships-Jane E. Dutton
Chapter 2: Outsource Inspiration-Adam M. Grant
Chapter 3: Negotiate Mindfully-Shirli Kopelman and Ramaswami Mahalingam
Part II. Unlock Resources from Within
Chapter 4: Enable Thriving at Work--Gretchen M. Spreitzer and Christine Porath
Chapter 5: Cultivate Positive Identities-Laura Morgan Roberts
Chapter 6: Engage in Job Crafting--Amy Wrzesniewski
Part III. Tap into the Good
Chapter 7: Activate Virtuousness-Kim Cameron
Chapter 8: Lead an Ethical Organization-David M. Mayer
Chapter 9: Imbue the Organization with Higher Purpose-Robert E. Quinn and Anjan V.Thakor
Part IV. Create Resourceful Change
Chapter 10: Cultivate Hope: Found, Not Lost--Oana Branzei
Chapter 11: Create Micro-Moves for Organizational Change--Karen Golden-Biddle
Chapter 12: Treat Employees as Resources not Resistors--Scott Sonenshein
Chapter 13: Create Opportunity from Crisis--Lynn Perry Wooten, Erika Hayes James
Epilogue and Looking Forward-Gretchen M. Spreitzer and Jane E. Dutton
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Authors
