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:
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<li>Set habits, not just goals </li>
<li>Recognize the Achoo! effect </li>
<li>Stop asking the wrong questions </li>
<li>Hire for what's not on the resume </li>
<li>Turn strengths into a team sport </li>
<li>Preview, don't just review, performance</li>
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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: Proven Leadership Strategies to Boost Productivity and Transform Your Business, with a foreword by Tom Rath

Business & Money

Maymin, Senia

Greenberg, Margaret H.

Management & Leadership

McGraw=Hill

Do you ever lie awake worrying at night? Do you worry about how your boss is unhappy with your work or how you failed an exam or how your son may get swine flu or how your parents are old and need attention? Yes, some things are bad. We don't deny it. The biggest misperception about positive psychology is that it is positive thinking. It is not. Positive psychology is the study of what makes people grow and flourish, no matter what circumstances surround them. Life includes grief and loss. As a prominent professor says, "Positive psychology is the permission to be human." But worrying about things that may never occur takes a huge toll on people. People may also attach more suffering than necessary to negative events by creating interpretations that make them feel helpless. This little book explores an important topic in the field of positive psychology: Why do some people go through hard times and be-come stronger and more appreciative of their lives? Do they think differently than other people? Do they behave differently? What can we learn from them that can make other people's lives better? What tools and techniques emerge from research that can help all of us deal more effectively with the challenges of our time?

Resilience: How to Navigate Life's Curves (Positive Psychology News)

Self-Help

Britton, Kathryn

Hall, Nicholas

Chin, Eleanor

Dustin, Jeff

So, Timothy

Cohen, Aren

Personal Transformation

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The second book in the Positive Psychology News series explores the benefits and practices of gratitude and looking at the world with an appreciative eye. Like the earlier book on resilience, it conveys compelling research results with stories, examples, and suggested actions that are immediately useful. Topics include talking to children about gratitude, giving gifts that increase happiness, fresh ways to celebrate holidays, and experiencing gratitude in unlikely situations.

Gratitude: How to Appreciate Life's Gifts

Happiness

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