The Power of Positive Leadership: How and Why Positive Leaders Transform Teams and Organizations and Change the World

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chapter 1: From Negative to Positive -- Chapter 2: Real Positive -- Chapter 3: Positive Leaders Drive Positive Cultures -- Your Most Important Job -- Culture Beats Strategy -- Know What You Stand For -- More than Words -- Positively Contagious -- Create a Culture that People Feel -- Invest in the Root if You Want the Fruit -- You Must Keep Building Your Culture -- Chapter 4: Positive Leaders Create and Share a Positive Vision -- A North Star -- A Telescope and Microscope -- Dabo Swinney's Vision -- Keep the Vision Alive -- Make the Vision Come Alive -- My Vision -- Chapter 5: Positive Leaders Lead with Optimism, Positivity, and Belief -- Believe It and You'll See It -- If You Don't Have It, You Can't Share It -- Feed the Positive Dog -- Talk to Yourself -- It's All How You See It -- Tell Yourself a Positive Story -- Challenge or Opportunity -- Shark or Goldfish -- Think Like a Rookie -- Defeating Murphy -- Inside Out -- Distort Reality -- Leadership Is a Transfer of Belief -- Lead with Faith Instead of Fear -- Be an Over-Believer -- Don't Stop Believing -- Your Leadership Journey -- Chapter 6: Positive Leaders Confront, Transform, and Remove Negativity -- Your Positivity Must Be Greater than All the Negativity -- No Energy Vampires Allowed -- Why Wait? -- The First Step Is to Transform -- Start at the Culture Level -- Remove the Negativity -- Sooner or Later -- Lead from Where You Are -- Implement the No Complaining Rule -- Michael Phelps's Positive Leadership -- Don't Be Negative about Negativity -- Chapter 7: Positive Leaders Create United and Connected Teams -- Connection Is the Difference -- Team Beats Talent When Talent Isn't a Team -- Dabo Swinney's Safe Seat -- Collaborate and Facilitate -- Don't Let Your Reptile Eat Your Positive Dog.

Chapter 8: Positive Leaders Build Great Relationships and Teams -- Love Does -- Love Is the Greatest Leadership Principle on the Planet -- Rules without Relationship Lead to Rebellion -- Communication Builds Trust -- Where There Is a Void in Communication, Negativity Fills It -- Leading by Walking Around -- Listening Is Communicating -- Enhance Your Positive Communication -- Be an Encourager -- Believe in Others More than They Believe in Themselves -- Help Your Team Become Unstoppable -- Connect One on One -- Be Committed -- Serve to Be Great -- Doing the Laundry -- It's Not About You -- Commit to Coach -- Commitment Requires Sacrifice -- When You Help Others Improve, You Improve -- Elite of the Elite -- Positive Leaders Care -- Develop Your Caring Trademark -- The Sandwich -- Chapter 9: Positive Leaders Pursue Excellence -- Humble and Hungry -- There Is No Finish Line -- Demanding without Being Demeaning -- Love and Accountability -- Love Tough -- Craftsmen and Craftswomen -- The One Percent Rule -- Clarity and Action -- Chapter 10: Positive Leaders Lead with Purpose -- Find and Live Your Purpose -- Share the Purpose -- Inspire Others to Live Their Purpose -- Purpose-Driven Goals -- One Word -- Life Word -- Leave a Legacy -- Give People Great Stories to Tell -- Life and Death -- Chapter 11: Positive Leaders Have Grit -- Know What You Want -- Know Your Why -- Love It -- Embrace Failure -- Keep Doing Things the Right Way: Trust the Process -- Ignore the Critics -- Do the Work -- Chapter 12: Lead the Way Forward -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Bring the Power of Positive Leadership to Your Organization -- Power of Positive Leadership Resources -- Other Books by Jon Gordon -- The Energy Bus -- The Energy Bus for Kids -- The No Complaining Rule -- Training Camp -- The Shark and the Goldfish -- Soup -- The Seed -- The Positive Dog -- The Carpenter.

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We are not positive?because life is easy. We are positive because life can be hard.?As a leader, you will face numerous obstacles,?negativity, and tests. There will be times when it seems as if?everything in the world is conspiring against you and your?vision seems more like a fantasy than a reality. That?s why?positive leadership is essential!?Positive leadership is not about fake positivity. It is the real stuff?that makes great leaders great.?The research is clear. Being a positive leader is not just a nice way to lead. It's the way to lead if you want to build a great culture, unite your organization in the face of adversity, develop a connected and committed team and achieve excellence and superior results.? Since writing the mega best seller the Energy Bus, Jon Gordon has worked and consulted with leaders who have transformed their companies, organizations and schools,?won national championships and?are?currently?changing the world.?He has also interviewed some of the greatest leaders of our time and?researched?many positive leaders throughout history and discovered their paths to success.?In?this pioneering book Jon?Gordon shares what he has learned and provides a comprehensive framework on positive leadership filled?with proven principles, compelling stories, practical ideas and practices that will help?anyone become a positive?leader.? There is a power associated?with positive leadership and you can start benefiting yourself and your team with it today.

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