How to Be a Positive Leader

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.