Positive Leadership: The Game Changer at Work

If you are or want to be a leader that people actually want to be around, want to follow, and want to feel believed in, put this book on the top of your list. It is not just a book to read, it is a book to do. And it is a book to do from now through the rest of your life. Fair warning--this puts your emotional intelligence, behaviors, attitudes on the line, and challenges you to know yourself and correct yourself no matter what cards you have been dealt or what circumstances you face. Steve makes it clear that if you want to be a leader and have the responsibility to lead others and have authority over others, you have the ability to create a positive culture and experience, or a destructive, demoralizing culture and experience. He lays out a framework that puts the work of positivity squarely on each of our shoulders, and uses the best of the best research available today, particularly in neuroscience and the brain, to lay out a roadmap for personal leadership development. Really, if you want to be a great leader, what could be more important than knowing what truly works and how to make it work? Steve connects the dots using the best minds, knowledge, experiments and examples on human behavior and leadership, making many layers of complexity relatively easy to understand. Then he gives you a roadmap of what to do and how to do it, showing you how to build a positive inner and outer life, building blocks for positive leadership. And, besides the great framework, he tells a captivating and instructive story to reinforce what he is teaching us to know and learn.

This is a great summary of positivity research. The contents are inspirational and worthwhile for leaders and everyone else who’d like to uplift their workplace. Steve Gladis collected wonderful positive leadership research with some amazing outcomes. Treacherous thing about this topic: it looks simple but to practice this consistently requires work.... It’s easier said than done. Positive leadership, random acts of kindness, and keeping a gratitude journal may seem "overly positive" - which may evoke reactions from pessimists or cynics who think you’re a naive idealist, or worse. But that has nothing to do with the book - it simply illustrates how much development is needed in our organizations, and how many people have lost hope. The second part of the book is fiction, a leadership fable. It seems a bit childish to me - but I don't like this kind of fables because they are larger than life, and not nuanced enough because they have to illustrate the point. They pretend to be fiction - but disappoint me because they’re not. I prefer to read the nonfiction part. But the story may be illustrative to others who have a different learning style. Check out this book if you want to inspire yourself with positive leadership and if you're ready to change the game at work! Let's develop our workplaces and the world.

With Positive Leadership, The Game Changer at Work, Steve Gladis, an astute observer of what really works in the business world, gives us the best of all-possible worlds: both an incisive review of the literature of positive psychology & leadership and a compelling story that grabs our attention and allows us to see these principles in action. Steve Gladis is sensitive to the fact that people learn and process information differently. Because he understands that some people want "just the facts" and prefer an academic, research based approach to information, Gladis gives us all the most current research, written in a friendly, accessible style. But for those of us who prefer to learn through the use of stories, Gladis offers a compelling story that immediately captures our attention and interest even as it serves as the vehicle for communicating information in a friendly, non-didactic way. In his new book Gladis has brought together his life-long interest in leadership with his newer but riveting interest in Positive Psychology. He has distilled thousands of pages of information about positive psychology and leadership from the writings of leaders in these fields into 150 accessible pages of core learning. With a definite slant toward leadership and business, Gladis has given us a clean, clear, crisp look at how the principles of positive psychology can have a positive impact on people both inside and outside the business world.

The book is simple and practical. A couple of weekends of reading it can give you good chance of improving your life. The combination of two parts give very good impression and helps to remember better the concept.

This is a very interesting and informative book. I look forward to implementing the lessons at my office. The approach of teaching material like a textbook and then again later as a novel was refreshing and helpful.

Steve Gladis is the GO-TO leadership author of our day. His research on the topic of "positivity" lays a strong foundation for all of us to think more carefully about how we can bring these traits to our co workers, families and friends. Leaders of all types can benefit from Steve's knowledgable commentary and observations. Fun, easy to read and uplifting read.

The power of positivity is real! The book provides practical ideas and strategies that will work in any situation. Great book!

Great tips! Easy read! I wish I could distribute a book around my office titled "Positive Followers!" :)

As with any self-help guide you might find a few items that resonate with you. This is really a round-up of research on happiness, presented in an accessible form.