Profit from the Positive: Proven Leadership Strategies to Boost Productivity and Transform Your Business (Hardcover eBook, and audio formats) is a no-cost, no-permission guide for boosting individual, team, and business performance. 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 – Zappos, Google, and Amazon to name a few – Profit from the Positive provides over two-dozen evidence-based tools. Learn how to GET MORE DONE, WITHOUT HAVING TO WORK MORE HOURS by:
• “Outsourcing” yourself
• Setting habits instead of goals
Learn how to BEAT YOUR COMPETITION by:
• Hiring for what’s NOT on the resume
• Quitting
Learn how to BOOST YOUR TEAM’S PRODUCTIVITY UP TO 40% by:
• Recognizing the Achoo! effect
• Previewing—not just reviewing—performance
The best part? These strategies don’t cost a dime to implement! You will not need to hire an expensive consulting company or go through internal red tape to secure permission to begin implementing these tools today. Trained by Dr. Martin Seligman, known as the father of Positive Psychology, Greenberg and Maymin translate the scientific research and finally make it accessible to the business world. So, what is Positive Psychology? First, let’s be clear about what it is not: Positive Psychology is not positive thinking. Positive Psychology researchers have studied topics such as productivity, resilience, motivation, collaboration, and much more. In short, they seek answers to questions that every business leader wrestles with. Profit from the Positive has been endorsed by bestselling authors including Shawn Achor, Chris Brogan, Chip Conley, Tony Hsieh, Marshall Goldsmith, Adam Grant, Tom Rath, Gretchen Rubin, and Tal Ben-Shahar These no-cost, no-permission tools have been successfully implemented by business leaders, managers, entrepreneurs, executive coaches, and human resource professionals at companies ranging from Google to Aetna.
