The Power of Positive Leadership: How and Why Positive Leaders Transform Teams and Organizations and Change the World (Jon Gordon)

The Power of Positive Leadership: How and Why Positive Leaders Transform Teams and Organizations and Change the World
Contents
Chapter 1: From Negative to Positive
Chapter 2: Real Positive
Chapter 3: Positive Leaders Drive Positive Cultures
	Your Most Important Job
	Culture Beats Strategy
	Know What You Stand For
	More than Words
	Positively Contagious
	Create a Culture that People Feel
	Invest in the Root if You Want the Fruit
	You Must Keep Building Your Culture
Chapter 4: Positive Leaders Create and Share a Positive Vision
	A North Star
	A Telescope and Microscope
	Dabo Swinney's Vision
	Keep the Vision Alive
	Make the Vision Come Alive
	My Vision
Chapter 5: Positive Leaders Lead with Optimism, Positivity, and Belief
	Believe It and You'll See It
	If You Don't Have It, You Can't Share It
	Feed the Positive Dog
	Talk to Yourself
	It's All How You See It
	Tell Yourself a Positive Story
	Challenge or Opportunity
	Shark or Goldfish
	Think Like a Rookie
	Defeating Murphy
	Inside Out
	Distort Reality
	Leadership Is a Transfer of Belief
	Lead with Faith Instead of Fear
	Be an Over-Believer
	Don't Stop Believing
	Your Leadership Journey
Chapter 6: Positive Leaders Confront, Transform, and Remove Negativity
	Your Positivity Must Be Greater than All the Negativity
	No Energy Vampires Allowed
	Why Wait?
	The First Step Is to Transform
	Start at the Culture Level
	Remove the Negativity
	Sooner or Later
	Lead from Where You Are
	Implement the No Complaining Rule
	Michael Phelps's Positive Leadership
	Don't Be Negative about Negativity
Chapter 7: Positive Leaders Create United and Connected Teams
	Connection Is the Difference
	Team Beats Talent When Talent Isn't a Team
	Dabo Swinney's Seat
	Collaborate and Facilitate
	Don't Let Your Reptile Eat Your Positive Dog
Chapter 8: Positive Leaders Build Great Relationships and Teams
	Love Does
	Love Is the Greatest Leadership Principle on the Planet
	Rules without Relationship Lead to Rebellion
	Communication Builds Trust
	Where There Is a Void in Communication, Negativity Fills It
	Leading by Walking Around
	Listening Is Communicating
	Enhance Your Positive Communication
	Be an Encourager
	Believe in Others More than They Believe in Themselves
	Help Your Team Become Unstoppable
	Connect One on One
	Be Committed
	Serve to Be Great
	Doing the Laundry
	It's Not About You
	Commit to Coach
	Commitment Requires Sacrifice
	When You Help Others Improve, You Improve
	Elite of the Elite
	Positive Leaders Care
	Develop Your Caring Trademark
	The Sandwich
Chapter 9: Positive Leaders Pursue Excellence
	Humble and Hungry
	There Is No Finish Line
	Demanding without Being Demeaning
	Love and Accountability
	Love Tough
	Craftsmen and Craftswomen
	The One Percent Rule
	Clarity and Action
Chapter 10: Positive Leaders Lead with Purpose
	Find and Live Your Purpose
	Share the Purpose
	Inspire Others to Live Their Purpose
	Purpose-Driven Goals
	One Word
	Life Word
	Leave a Legacy
	Give People Great Stories to Tell
	Life and Death
Chapter 11: Positive Leaders Have Grit
	Know What You Want
	Know Your Why
	Love It
	Embrace Failure
	Keep Doing Things the Right Way: Trust the Process
	Ignore the Critics; Do the Work
Chapter 12: Lead the Way Forward
Notes
Acknowledgments
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Power of Positive Leadership Resources
Other Books by Jon Gordon
	The Energy Bus
	The Energy Bus for Kids
	The No Complaining Rule
	Training Camp
	The Shark and the Goldfish
	Soup
	The Seed
	The Positive Dog
	The Carpenter
	The Hard Hat
	You Win in the Locker Room First: The 7 C's to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life
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