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December 17, 2013
6 Essential Ways to Build a Positive Organization
In an interview on Forbes.com, Center for Positive Organizations managing director Chris White identifies based-in-research tactics for tapping resources that “can lead to vibrant, energized people contributing at the highest level in thriving workplaces.”
The Good Guys Win: How a new field of research is redefining—and redesigning—success in business
On livehappymagazine.com, Patton Dodd quotes Kim Cameron and Jane Dutton in a feature on the application of research findings in positive organizational scholarship by then-CEO John Y. Kim—including institutionalizing forgiveness, resilience, supportive communication, and employee empowerment—during a difficult merger at Prudential Retirement.
+Lab Student Fellows Experience Reciprocity Ring
The Center for Positive Organizations +Lab student fellows participated in a Reciprocity Ring and will have the opportunity to collaborate with CPO Partner Humax Corporation on a beta test for a mobile app based on the Ring.
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December 17, 2013
Congratulations to The Motley Fool and CEO Tom Gardner for being named the best medium-sized company to work for by Glassdoor!
The anonymous employee reviews of The Motley Fool on Glassdoor reveals some of the reasons The Motley Fool earned this award: employees remark on the high level of autonomy they enjoy, ample opportunities for professional development and advancement, and the collaborative environment.
In May 2014, Gardner will speak at the Positive Business Conference hosted by the Stephen M. Ross School of Business.
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December 17, 2013
Barb Fredrickson, a leading scholar on positive emotions and human flourishing, returned to the Center for Positive Organizations to share the latest developments in her research on positivity. Barb first presented at Positive Links 10 years ago, and we are grateful for her membership in the community of Positive Organizational Scholarship researchers worldwide.
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December 13, 2013
forbes.com | December 13, 2013
Kathy Caprino of forbes.com talks with Chris White–Managing Director of the Center for Positive Organizations–about some of the most important POS research and the best ways to build a positive organization. Chris offers six effective ways to get started on the path to positivity.
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December 13, 2013
In the Forbes article, “6 Essential Ways To Build A Positive Organziation, ” CPO Managing Director, Chris White, citing research from CPO faculty, explains six ways to create positive organizations that make the utmost of human performance. Focus Behavior on the Do’s, Not Just the Don’ts Kim Cameron is cited for his research on virtuousness, and how attributes […]
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December 13, 2013
By: Jenny Simonson
One big myth of leadership is, “The higher you go, the more control you have.” Find out why this isn’t necessarily the case.
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December 11, 2013
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This is the first installment of two-part blog series covering Lea Waters’ visit to the Center for Positive Organizations. In this first part, YaLe Lim recounts Lea’s presentation about experience in helping to infuse positive psychology into the public education system in Melbourne, Australia.
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December 9, 2013
By: Margot Murphy
Chances are if you’ve spent time in Ross recently, you’ve heard the expression “mindful engagement” tossed around. You might have, like me, assumed that this was a new expression to mean “reflection” or “purpose.” These are not unrelated words, but what I learned a few weeks ago at Sue Ashford’s research incubator (an ideation session […]
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December 6, 2013
By: Jenny Simonson
This week I learned of Barbara Fredrickson’s leading research on positive emotions. She spoke about love as critical to building a meaningful life, but not in the traditional Hollywood-romantic-comedy way. She defined love as the most positive of the positive emotions—the feeling you get when you really relate to someone, when you click, or when […]
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December 4, 2013
By: Camille Piner
The reason I am involved in the Center for Positive Organizations is because of Chris Peterson. I signed up for his Positive Psychology[1] course at the last minute, and unexpectedly it became the most personally meaningful class I’ve ever taken. On the day of our midterm, though, Chris passed away unexpectedly, which was devastating to […]
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November 26, 2013
By: YaLe Lim
What comes to mind when you think of the word ‘Meditation’? I’ll admit… the words ‘slow’ and ‘monotonous’ were the first to come to mine. However, the meditation practices Dr. Benn brought us through, as well as her questions, made me rethink my previous notion. On 28th October 2013, I had the privilege of attending […]
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November 25, 2013
How would the educational experience be transformed—and transforming—if gratitude was part of the curriculum for students, and for training of teachers and administrators? Lea Waters is dedicated to providing the answers, as well as the resources, via her research on gratitude.
Lea Waters is the director of the Centre for Positive Psychology in the School of Education at the University of Melbourne, and she recently visited the Center for Positive Organizations to share her research into the importance of gratitude to well-being, and how best to engender a culture of gratitude in schools. She presented her research to University of Michigan faculty members and doctoral students in a POS Research Incubator session, and gave presentations on early education curricula featuring gratitude to students in the Center for Positive Organizations +Lab.
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