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

PART IIIt’s About the Team

This section focuses on what you can do to boost your team’s performance and transform your business. As a leader, you juggle many responsibilities. There’s no way you can do it alone. You must rely on your team to come up with innovative ideas, serve customers, collaborate with other departments, and deliver products or services on time and on budget. We show you how to apply positive psychology findings to four common business practices to bring out the best in your team.

After reading this section, you will be able to:

• Make better hiring decisions (Chapter 5). For example, did you know that technical skills, experience, and education are only half of the success equation?

• Improve performance (Chapter 6). For ...