Tag Archives: positive emotions

5 Ways Leaders Can Reduce Negative Thinking

By chipscholz | Published: May 6, 2011
As if leaders don’t have enough on their plates, now we’re learning leadership success requires more positivity and less negativity. This isn’t as simple as it may seem, and it doesn’t come without well-documented studies. Research from Drs. Barbara Fredrickson and Marcial Losada shows that people go from average to flourishing when their positive emotions exceed [...]
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Business Success: Be More Positive than Negative

By chipscholz | Published: May 4, 2011
In business, levels of happiness and positivity create success. A positive brain has more intellectual resources. What’s needed is to improve your positive/negative ratio. I never knew this, but it makes sense: in chemistry and physics there is something called activation energy: in order to catalyze a reaction, there is an initial investment of energy that [...]
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The Real Reason Fear Won’t Motivate

By chipscholz | Published: August 11, 2010
There’s a danger in using fear to motivate people. When you present a “burning platform” story to spur your people into action, there are inherent risks. People may jump into action, but will it be the right action? Will it be purposeful? Most of the big problems we encounter in organizations or society are ambiguous and evolving. [...]
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