Teamflow: The Science of Creating Positive Leadership Practices with IMPACT

"In this book, a master of optimal performance becomes a student of optimal performance. If you want to understand and create excellence in a human collective, this volume is a precious gift. Cherish it, and it will take you where conventional minds cannot go."

-PROFESSOR ROBERT E. QUINN

University of Michigan, Center for Positive Organizations

People want to be masters of their own destiny, but few become great leaders.

As continuous improvement and breakthroughs have driven innovation, technology, and civilizations forward for centuries, worker motivations have changed. We want authentic connection, work-life balance, and intrinsic purpose now more than ever. How can we weave foundational, people-driven attributes like hard work, initiative, and cooperation into a team, group, or organization's internal structure so it can thrive sustainably?

We all want a dream team-built with and by members that are always in the zone, utilize seamless communication strategies, work with an openness and willingness to play toward everyone's strengths, and have boundless creativity. This is rarely, if ever, the case. Studies have shown time and time again that forging a culture of trust, collaboration, and deep concern for others produces remarkable outcomes. But people are often blinded by the negatives, and may forget to look to the future with hope, respect, and positivity.

David Drews doesn't offer miracle solutions to your leadership challenges, because there are none. Leadership, good leadership, is hard-won and consciously maintained. It's built on self-discipline, concentration, and empathy. And it all starts with a positive mindset. Adopting the learnings of Positive Organizational Scholarship, a step-by-step philosophy for leaders to build effective teams and organizations, goes a long way in increasing productivity, optimizing every person's performance, and avoiding both leadership and employee burnout. Teamflow builds the habits that lead to better solutions, better workplaces, and better results-achieving IMPACT.

DAVID DREWS is the Founder and CEO of Justus Equity, LLC. After more than thirty-five years in leadership positions consciously practicing Teamflow, Drews joined the University of Michigan as an Executive in Residence at the Center for Positive Organizations at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business. He found the work of world-class researchers surrounding optimizing business performance fascinating. Synthesizing and restating the research with practical insights from his own experience deeply interests him.Drews has been fortunate to experience an amazing life journey and hopes readers gain as much insight as he has from the research of optimizing performance.