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About the Book: Positive Leadership: Strategies forExtraordinary Performance Leadership should be about much more than hitting targets andavoiding mistakes. Kim Cameron shows how to reach beyond ordinarysuccess to achieve extraordinary effectiveness, spectacularresults, and what he calls "positively deviantperformance"performance far above the norm. Positive leadershipenables thriving and flourishing rather than simply addressingobstacles and impediments. It helps bring out the best in humannature. Cameron is one of the founders of the new field of PositiveOrganizational Scholarship, which studies unusually high-performingorganizations. In Positive Leadership he draws on discoveries inthis field and in the allied field of positive psychology whichfocuses on high-functioning individuals as well as positiveorganizational change methodologies. He identifies fourinterrelated leadership strategies: Positive Climate: fostering emotions such asoptimism,compassion, and gratitude Positive Relationships: building positive energy networks anddeveloping strength-based activities Positive Communications: fostering best-self feedback andsupportive communication patterns Positive Meaning: helping people find profound purpose andasense of calling Cameron cites the empirical research that these strategies arerooted in and that supports their bottom-line effectiveness, laysout a proven process for implementing them, and includesaself-assessment instrument and a guide to assist leaders in theimplementation Process. Positive Leadership is a concise,thoroughly researched, and practical guide that any leader can useto generate truly amazing results. About the Author: Kim Cameron Kim Cameron is professor of management and organizations atMichigan's Stephen M. Ross School of Business and professor ofhigher education in the School of Education at the UniversityofMichigan. He is coauthor or co-editor of ten books, includingDeveloping Management Skills and Positive OrganizationalScholarship
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"This accessible and uplifting book translates years of social science research into actionable guidelines for leaders who wish to make a positive difference in the world."
--Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, Harvard Business School
"Kim Cameron provides a sound empirical basis for the link between positive executive behavior and outstanding business performance as well as practical strategies that leaders can apply to achieve extraordinary results through positive performance."
--Thomas Glocer, CEO, Thomson Reuters
"Positive Leadership brilliantly advances the argument for and validation of tangible strategies for creating extraordinary organizations. This work is comprehensive, well-documented, compelling, and insightful and represents a genuine contribution to the field."
--Jim Loehr, EdD, CEO and Chairman, Human Performance Institute
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Written by senior scholars and internationally known authors, Positive Organizational Scholarship establishes a new field of study in the organizational sciences. While the concept of positive organizational scholarship encompasses the examination of typical and even dysfunctional patterns of behavior, it emphasizes positive deviance from expected patterns. Positive Organizational Scholarship examines the enablers, motivations, and effects associated with remarkably positive phenomena--how they are facilitated, why they work, how they can be identified, and how researchers and managers can capitalize on them. The contributors do not adopt one particular theory or framework but draw from the full spectrum of organizational theories to understand, explain, and predict the occurrence, causes, and consequences of positivity.
Positive Organizational Scholarship rigorously seeks to understand what represents the best of the human condition based on scholarly research and theory. This book invites organizational scholars to build upon and extend the positive organizational phenomena being examined. It provides the definitional, theoretical, and empirical foundations for what will become a cumulative body of enduring work.
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