Hardcover: ISBN 10: 0071817433 ISBN 13: 978-0071817431
You're constantly challenged to grow your business, increase productivity, and improve quality―all while reducing or keeping budgets flat. So what's a manager to do?
You've streamlined processes. You've restructured. You’ve sought customer and employee feedback. You've tried everything. Now, try something that works. Profit from the Positive is a practical, groundbreaking guide for business leaders, managers, executive coaches, and human resource professionals. 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―Google, Zappos, and Amazon, to name a few―Profit from the Positive provides over two dozen evidence-based tools you can apply immediately. Learn how to:
Set habits, not just goals
Recognize the Achoo! effect
Stop asking the wrong questions
Hire for what's not on the resume
Turn strengths into a team sport
Preview, don't just review, performance
The best part? These strategies don't cost a dime to implement! Trained by Dr. Martin Seligman, who is known as the father of Positive Psychology, Margaret Greenberg and Senia Maymin translate the scientific research and make it accessible to the business world.
Review
"...If you are a leader, or would like to become one, the best advice that I can give you is to follow the advice in this book."
Tal Ben-Shahar, New York Times bestselling author of Happier and Choose the Life You Want
"...The suggestions in Profit from the Positive are what business schools will be teaching in ten years."
Shawn Achor, New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Advantage
"So many people are working from the negative side of the coin these days. Greenberg and Maymin have given you lots to implement here. Don't simply read this book. Absorb it."
Chris Brogan, CEO of Human Business Works and New York Times bestselling author of Trust Agents
"Profit from the Positive is a phenomenal book because it suggests small changes that make a huge difference...."
Debbie Newhouse, learning and development manager at Google and author of The Magic Seed
"I have two pieces of advice for any startup founder--be prepared for very little sleep and read Profit from the Positive from cover to cover."
Thomas M. Davidson, cofounder and CEO of EverFi, Inc.
From the Publisher
Margaret H. Greenberg is a sought-after executive coach by Fortune 500 executives. In 1997, after 15 years in the corporate world, she founded The Greenberg Group, a consulting firm dedicated to coaching business leaders and their teams to achieve more than they ever thought possible. She holds a BA in sociology from the University of Hartford and a Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) from the University of Pennsylvania. Greenberg lives in Connecticut with her husband and has two grown daughters.
Senia Maymin, PhD, is an executive coach to entrepreneurs and CEOs. Maymin runs a coaches network and is the founder and editor in chief of the research news site PositivePsychologyNews.com. She holds a BA in math and economics from Harvard University, a MAPP from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA and PhD in organizational behavior from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She lives in California with her family.