I learned an important lesson last week: When we relinquish control, we give others the opportunity to flourish. So, the next time you’re charged with designing a highly effective team-building session, imagine what would happen if you just didn’t show up.
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Get in the No Garbage Trucks! Zone – An Interview with Author David J. Pollay
“Happiness is not out of reach, and civility is not dead,” says David J. Pollay, speaker, seminar leader, blogger, syndicated columnist, and MAPP graduate in his new book, The Law of the Garbage Truck. And he has the research to prove it! Book Review: Pollay, D. J. (2010). The Law of the Garbage Truck: How …
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Researchers and practitioners seeking to bring positive psychology to the workplace have a new resource: the Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology and Work* edited by P. Alex Linley, Susan Harrington, and Nicola Garcea. All three editors are from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. Alex Linley is also the Founder and Director of …
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I nominate Get-it-out-the-Door as the 25th Strength. People who possess this strength get stuff done. They can be thought of as the great implementers of ideas. While it could be said that this strength is subsumed under Persistence, I believe it is deserving of its own place among the other twenty-four strengths. Wherever people have …
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Strengths-Based Leadership: An Interview with Author Tom Rath – Part 2
Following is Part Two of an interview I conducted last month with Tom Rath on Strengths-based Leadership. Talking about people he studied, Tom said, “They’re people that I have admired for a long time and they were just night and day different in the way they interacted with people and built their organizations.”