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’sand their owncapacity for excellence. And they accomplish this without enormous expenditures or huge heroic gestures. Here leading scholarsincluding Adam Grant, author of the bestselling Give and Take; positive organizational scholarship movement cofounders Kim Cameron and Robert Quinn; and thirteen moredescribe 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.