Generative Organizing
My close friend and colleague, Jane Dutton, loves to talk about the topic of “generative organizing.” She speaks of the moments […]
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A Culture of Learning
We visited a class in which students had been learning about positive leadership and organizations. They knew much, for example, […]
Becoming Part of the Whole
I once had an instructive encounter. A person came to me who was deeply upset, pushed outside the zone of […]
The Common Good
A few years ago I attended a formal dinner. David McCullough, the famous biographer spoke. He told two stories. The […]
The Necessity of Celebration in Dark of Times
We received a message from a person who has been in a senior role for ten years. Because of external […]
Commitment
This is an impressive, beautiful, and instructive short video. It captures a young man climbing a 2,500 foot, sheer face, […]
Gratitude in Staff Meetings
One day my daughter came home from work bubbling. She was in a really extreme, positive state. She told us […]
Why I Started a Gratitude Journal
I have been keeping a gratitude journal since 2010. Once I started, I immediately began to notice positive differences and it was easy to keep going. Today I look back at over 1,500 pages. Each page is precious. Deciding to keep a gratitude journal was a very good thing to do.
Discovering the Underlying Template
As people pay the steep price for acquiring the positive perspective, they become more and more masterful. Eventually they gain a theory of influence that allows them to inspire positive change in any situation. They may make mistakes, like Harbaugh did in asking about George Halas, but they tend to recover. If we look for them, even in strange places, like a TV show, we can choose to learn from them and we can accelerate our own efforts to become masters of positive influence.
Forbes Article
I am grateful to Dr. Rodger Duncan for the wonderful write-up he gave my book, “The Positive Organization” in Forbes yesterday. […]