Profit from the Positive: Proven Leadership Strategies to Boost Productivity and Transform Your Business, with a foreword by Tom Rath

APPENDIX E

THE FIVE FRESH THEMES

In Profit from the Positive, five big themes emerge. We call them FRESH: Fit, Right, Emotions, Science, and Habits. This might be an easy shorthand way to introduce the concepts in this book to others.

Fit: What’s fit? Fit shows up in our hiring practices—both job fit and company fit. Fit also shows up in the way we align work to an employee’s strengths. When it comes to recruiting new employees, we need to expand our view of what good fit really means. Today we tend to focus on the candidate’s technical skills, education, and experience. We discount the importance of interpersonal skills and how well the candidate will fit in at our company. Once employees are hired, we spend too much time shining a spotlight ...