You're constantly challenged to grow your business, increase productivity, and improve quality―all while reducing or keeping budgets flat. So what's a manager to do?
You've streamlined processes. You've restructured. You’ve sought customer and employee feedback. You've tried everything. Now, try something that works. Profit from the Positive is a practical, groundbreaking guide for business leaders, managers, executive coaches, and human resource professionals. Whether you lead three employees or 3,000, this book shows you how to increase productivity, collaboration, and profitability using the simple yet powerful tools from the new field of Positive Psychology.
Featuring case studies of some of the most forward-thinking and successful companies today―Google, Zappos, and Amazon, to name a few―Profit from the Positive provides over two dozen evidence-based tools you can apply immediately. Learn how to:
The best part? These strategies don't cost a dime to implement! Trained by Dr. Martin Seligman, who is known as the father of Positive Psychology, Margaret Greenberg and Senia Maymin translate the scientific research and make it accessible to the business world.
"Profit from the Positive is a thought-provoking and practical guide to applying insights from positive psychology to the workplace. It's an invaluable resource for anyone seeking better satisfaction and performance at work."
--Gretchen Rubin, New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before
"Executive coaches Greenberg and Maymin offer over two dozen practical tools for running a more profitable business. All of their advice is backed up by science, tested in businesses large and small, and doesn't cost a dime to implement. The suggestions in Profit from the Positive are what business schools will be teaching in ten years."
--Shawn Achor, New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Advantage
"An excellent resource for leaders who want to fulfill more of their own and others' potential, Profit from the Positive is accessible, interesting, and based on solid research that can, and will, make a difference in you and your environment. If you are a leader, or would like to become one, the best advice that I can give you is to follow the advice in this book."
--Tal Ben-Shahar, author of Happier and Choose the Life You Want
"Profit from the Positive is a straightforward business book with tools that anyone can implement."
--Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, Inc., and New York Times bestselling author of Delivering Happiness
"So many people are working from the negative side of the coin these days. Greenberg and Maymin have given you lots to implement here. Don't simply read this book. Absorb it."
--Chris Brogan, CEO of Human Business Works and author of Trust Agents
"As the third-generation president and CEO of our family company, I am a true believer in using positive leadership to help drive our company forward. This book provides some wonderful reinforcement for leaders to read as a reminder of how we should work with our teams."
--Cindi Bigelow, president and CEO of Bigelow Tea
"In their book, Profit from the Positive, Margaret and Senia offer some innovative ways for transforming a team, a department, even a company, to be more productive and profitable. They have turned some traditionally held notions on their heads, replacing them with ideas that turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones. Better yet, their ideas don't require any capital outlay or long-range planning. In many instances, after reading these inspirational suggestions, a business leader can implement them right away--that same day--and reap the immediate rewards of having a more engaged workforce and improved business performance."
--Greg Tranter, EVP, CIO, and COO of the Hanover Insurance Group
"Don't go to work without this book! Profit from the Positive is a revolutionary, science-based road map to business success. If you want to amp up your success, follow Greenberg and Maymin's unique prescription for driving phenomenal business results through the development of extraordinary employees. Get this book for yourself and every member of your team!"
--David J. Pollay, author of The Law of the Garbage Truck
"There are so many good and useful business and leadership books available. But this book is different! The authors cut to the heart of leadership attributes that can drive both results and team energy, create a focused, contagious atmosphere that leverages the strengths of employees, and inspire leaps in performance effectiveness and success. If you are a leader or aspire to be one, Profit from the Positive is indispensable reading."
--Kevin McCarthy, president and CEO of Unum US and EVP and COO of Unum Group
"A great read! The research on how our moods and emotions as leaders influence our team's productivity struck home for me. Being aware of this is more important than most of us realize. I found the techniques to neutralize a negative mood enormously helpful."
--Leslie Ashford, AVP of executive development at MassMutual Financial Group
"This book is engaging, enjoyable, and practical. Especially intriguing is the notion of turning performance reviews into positive events, borrowing from sports psychology by positively visualizing the year ahead and setting up the conditions for success!"
--Debra Palermino, EVP of human resources at MassMutual Financial Group
"Profit from the Positive is a must-read for managers at all levels. Using case studies from their coaching experience, Greenberg and Maymin demonstrate how to avoid costly hiring mistakes and create an engaged workforce--and they have the data to prove it. Profit from the Positive is written with the needs of today's world in mind. The practical and proven tools contained in this book, combined with its timeless wisdom, will inspire you for years to come."
--Laura A. Belsten, president and CEO of the Institute for Social + Emotional Intelligence
"Profit from the Positive is full of realistic, creative, practical, and effective strategies for leadership in the post command-and-control business world. It is a transformation handbook for leaders, teams, and organizations."
--John P. Tarpey, COO of Balfour Beatty Construction, US
"Greenberg and Maymin have written a must-read on how to power yourself, your team and your organization with easy to read and easy to implement strategies. As Aetna's chief culture officer, I apply many of the concepts, best practices, and action steps within our culture transformation efforts."
--Laurie Brubaker, CCO at Aetna
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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. How business leaders at any level can increase productivity, collaboration-and profitability-using the tools of Positive Psychology Translates the latest scientific research into actionable advice to help anyone from CEOs to entrepreneurs motivate their employees to work at peak performance without spending a cent Offers counterintuitive, easy-to-remember principles, such as Set Habits Not Goals, Don't Resist Resistance, and Preview, Don't Review, Performance-with case studies of their effectiveness at companies such as Bigelow Tea, Red Lobster, and Zappos, among others Both authors were trained in Positive Psychology by its founder, Dr. Martin Seligman: Greenberg is an executive coach whose clients include Aetna, ING, and MassMutual Financial Group; Maymin is an executive coach to technology CEOs and has been featured in USA Today, BusinessWeek, and on PBS's "This Emotional Life" A practical guide for business leaders that translates findings from scientific research on resilience, productivity, success, and happiness - what's called Positive Psychology. It helps you learn powerful counterintuitive principles - such as Set Habits Not Goals, Don't Resist Resistance, and Preview, Don't Review, Performance. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9780071817431