Practicing positive leadership: tools and techniques that create extraordinary results

This book makes the latest scholarship on creating extraordinarily successful organizations available in a concise, how-to format. Makes the latest scholarship on creating extraordinarily successful organizations available in a concise, how-to format; Features a wealth of specific tools and techniques for implementing positive leadership in five different areas; Written by one of the founders of the field of positive organizational scholarship and the coauthor of Developing Management Skills (more than 250,000 copies sold over eight editions). Over a decade ago, Author and some colleagues decided that rather than analyze what went terribly wrong with organizations and how to prevent it, they would look at what went extraordinarily right and how to replicate it. This was the birth of positive organizational scholarship, a new field that focused on what they called "positive deviance"-outcomes that far exceeded normal success.In his previous book Positive Leadership, Cameron outlined four leadership strategies-Positive Climate, Positive Relationships, Positive Communications, and Positive Meaning-that characterize exceptionally high-performing organizations.