July 11, 2017
By: Lea Waters
Topic(s): Positive Relationships
Keyword(s): Flourishing, Happiness, parenting, strengths, Thriving
Unlock your children’s potential by helping them build their strengths. This game-changing book shows us the extraordinary results of focusing on our children’s strengths rather than always trying to correct their weaknesses. Most parents struggle with this shift because they suffer from a negativity bias, thanks to evolutionary development, giving them “strengths-blindness.” By showing us […]
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April 24, 2017
By: Adam Grant, Sheryl Sandberg
Topic(s): Positive Meaning & Purpose, Positive Practices
Keyword(s): Compassion, Courage, Flourishing, Relationships, Resilience, Thriving
After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. “I was in ‘the void,’” she writes, “a vast emptiness that fills your heart and lungs and restricts your ability to think or even breathe.” Her friend Adam Grant, a psychologist at Wharton, […]
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February 20, 2017
By: Jane Dutton, Monica Worline
Topic(s): Positive Relationships
Compassion Architects Video #2 – The Ripple Metaphor from Monica Worline on Vimeo. Suffering in the workplace can rob our colleagues and coworkers of humanity, dignity, and motivation and is an unrecognized and costly drain on organizational potential. Marshaling evidence from two decades of field research, scholars and consultants Monica Worline and Jane Dutton show […]
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February 7, 2017
By: Scott Sonenshein
Topic(s): Positive Meaning & Purpose
A groundbreaking approach to succeeding in business and life, using the science of resourcefulness. We often think the key to success and satisfaction is to get more: more money, time, and possessions; bigger budgets, job titles, and teams; and additional resources for our professional and personal goals. It turns out we’re wrong. Using captivating stories […]
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November 10, 2016
By: Laura Morgan Roberts
#epicenter, inspired by the results of the U.S.A. November 2016 elections, channels pain and struggle laced with hope and courage. Dr. Laura Morgan Roberts, organizational psychologist, infuses her poetry with global experiences of diversity and leadership. Her words paint images of the timeless quest for inclusion, justice and social transformation among silenced and marginalized voices. […]
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September 27, 2016
By: Mary Hinesly, Amy Young, Michael J. O'Brien
Three big questions gnaw on the minds of business leaders. What are the new rules of business for the digital era? Which companies will survive and which will go by the wayside? Will your company survive? It is common knowledge that the digital revolution has happened, and information age is here; yet few fully understand what […]
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May 10, 2016
By: Vic Strecher
Topic(s): Positive Meaning & Purpose
A pioneer in the field of behavioral science delivers a groundbreaking work that shows how finding your purpose in life leads to better health and overall happiness. Your life is a boat. You need a rudder. But it doesn’t matter how much wind is in your sails if you’re not steering toward a harbor—an ultimate […]
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April 22, 2016
By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Both thoughtful and thought-provoking, Finding Purpose challenges our understanding of how humanity interacts with planet Earth, and our role within this. Collecting over 20 pieces from a lifetime of work in academia and trade, across speeches, blogs, editorials and essays, Hoffman directly addresses humanity’s role in creating and adapting to climate change. The reader is encouraged to consider humanity’s relationship with the environment through different lenses: business, academia, faith-based and cultural. By bringing them together, Hoffman encourages us to understand our relationship with the planet in a far more holistic sense.
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March 20, 2016
By: George J. Siedel
Your friend decides to order a pizza. President Obama decides to authorize the mission that leads to the death of Osama bin Laden. You decide that your business should launch a new product. What do these decisions have in common? They all require using the Three Pillar model of decision making. Our personal, leadership, and […]
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February 2, 2016
By: Adam Grant
With Give and Take, Adam Grant not only introduced a landmark new paradigm for success but also established himself as one of his generation’s most compelling and provocative thought leaders. In Originals he again addresses the challenge of improving the world, but now from the perspective of becoming original: choosing to champion novel ideas and […]
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January 6, 2016
By: Ted London
As economic growth slows in the developed world, the base of the pyramid (BoP) represents perhaps the last great, untapped market. Of the world’s 7 billion inhabitants, around 4 billion live in low-income markets in the developing world. These 4 billion people deserve—and, increasingly, are demanding—better lives. At the same time, the business community seeks […]
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September 30, 2015
By: Lynn Wooten, Laura Morgan Roberts, Martin Davidson
What happens when thought leaders question longstanding assumptions regarding the most “positive” ways to strengthen diverse organizations? This volume of essays unites the latest research in diversity, inclusion and positive organizational scholarship (POS) to investigate diversity and inclusion dynamics in workplaces, schools, and communities. Comprised of succinct chapters, this book covers six key areas: authenticity, […]
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