How to Be a Positive Leader: Small Actions, Big Impact by Jane S Dutton

How to Be a Positive Leader: Small Actions, Big Impact by Jane S Dutton

Positive leaders are able to dramatically expand their people s and their own capacity for excellence. And they accomplish this without enormous expenditures or huge heroic gestures. Here leading scholars including Adam Grant, author of the bestselling Give and Take; positive organizational scholarship movement cofounders Kim Cameron and Robert Quinn; and thirteen more describe how this is being done at companies such as Wells Fargo, Ford, Kelly Services, Burt s Bees, Connecticut s Griffin Hospital, the Michigan-based Zingerman s Community of Businesses, and many others. They show that, like the butterfly in Brazil whose flapping wings create a typhoon in Texas, you can create profound positive change in your organization through simple actions and attitude shifts.

The William Russell Kelly Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan is Jane E. Dutton. She is the author of three books and numerous essays on relational work in companies, which have appeared in publications such as the Academyof Management Review, Strategic Thinking, and AdministrativeScience Quarterly. Dutton's article, Leading in Times of Trauma, was published in the Harvard Management Review in January 2002.