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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790923803321

Autore

Dutton Jane E.

Titolo

How to be a positive leader : small actions, big impact / / [edited by] Jane E. Dutton and Gretchen M. Spreitzer ; foreword by Shawn Achor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco : , : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., , [2014]

�2014

ISBN

1-5231-1140-2

1-62656-030-7

1-62656-029-3

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 213 pages) : illustrations

Collana

BK business book

Gale eBooks

Classificazione

BUS071000BUS041000BUS020000

Disciplina

658.4/092

Soggetti

Leadership

Organizational effectiveness - Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Invitation; I: FOSTER POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS; 1 Build High-Quality Connections; 2 Outsource Inspiration; 3 Negotiate Mindfully; II: UNLOCK RESOURCES FROM WITHIN; 4 Enable Thriving at Work; 5 Cultivate Positive Identities; 6 Engage in Job Crafting; III: TAP INTO THE GOOD; 7 Activate Virtuousness; 8 Lead an Ethical Organization; 9 Imbue the Organization with a Higher Purpose; IV: CREATE RESOURCEFUL CHANGE; 10 Cultivate Hope: Found, Not Lost; 11 Create Micro-moves for Organizational Change; 12 Treat Employees as Resources, Not Resisters

13 Create Opportunity from CrisisEpilogue and Looking Forward; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

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