Jane E. Dutton & Gretchen M. Spreitzer 
How to Be a Positive Leader 
Small Actions, Big Impact

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.

Table of Content

Foreword—Shawn Achor
Invitation—Jane Dutton and Gretchen Spreitzer

Part I. Foster Positive Relationships
Chapter 1: Build High Quality Relationships–Jane E. Dutton
Chapter 2: Outsource Inspiration–Adam M. Grant
Chapter 3: Negotiate Mindfully–Shirli Kopelman and Ramaswami Mahalingam

Part II. Unlock Resources from Within
Chapter 4: Enable Thriving at Work–Gretchen M. Spreitzer and Christine Porath
Chapter 5: Cultivate Positive Identities–Laura Morgan Roberts
Chapter 6: Engage in Job Crafting–Amy Wrzesniewski

Part III. Tap into the Good
Chapter 7: Activate Virtuousness–Kim Cameron
Chapter 8: Lead an Ethical Organization–David M. Mayer
Chapter 9: Imbue the Organization with Higher Purpose–Robert E. Quinn and Anjan V.Thakor

Part IV. Create Resourceful Change
Chapter 10: Cultivate Hope: Found, Not Lost–Oana Branzei
Chapter 11: Create Micro-Moves for Organizational Change–Karen Golden-Biddle
Chapter 12: Treat Employees as Resources not Resistors–Scott Sonenshein
Chapter 13: Create Opportunity from Crisis–Lynn Perry Wooten, Erika Hayes James
Epilogue and Looking Forward–Gretchen M. Spreitzer and Jane E. Dutton
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Authors

About the author

Gretchen M. Spreitzer is the Keith E. and Valerie J. Alessi Professor of Business Administration at the Ross School of Business, where she is codirector of the Center for Positive Organizations.