As leaders focus on short-term results, tactical issues, quarterly numbers, and the crisis of the day, Kim Cameron shares an untapped and hidden resource that provides four-times better results. This is Kim Cameron’s second appearance on The Leadership Podcast, and he shares how leaders can be effective energizers for short-term yield, and long-term gain. Kim is a Professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Listen in as one of the most influential minds discusses the science of positivity.
Key Takeaways
[3:50] Kim shares what the heliotropic effect is and how humans prosper around light and positive energy.
[7:45] Good leaders help other people flourish. Energy plays an important role in the workforce because it means the right people can brighten the entire office, and the wrong people can suck the good energy dry.
[8:40] Empirical evidence says that positive leaders produce excellent bottom-line results.
[10:00] Positive energy and lighting up a room with your presence should not be confused with extroverted or introverted people. These are two separate things.
[11:15] A study showed that people who made positive phone calls to those they loved were eight times healthier than those who received a positive phone call.
[13:35] Kim shares an example of how Delta Airlines rewards its customers.
[17:00] Children as young as three months old can actively recognize good and virtuous acts.
[21:20] People are willing to give up salary, vacation days, and more so that they can work in a place that has meaning.
[23:45] You don’t need to wait for management to develop a meaningful job purpose for you. You can create your own job’s purpose. Kim shares an example of what this looks like.
[26:55] If you’d like to create and measure a baseline of positive energy in your organization, start by creating an energy network map.
[29:15] So many leaders do not realize the power of having a positive energizer on their team. It is an untapped resource that creates a 4X better impact.
[35:00] Positive impact doesn’t just apply to workplace situations. It can be applied as a parent, too.
[39:25] Listener challenge: What’s the best thing you did for somebody today?
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“Leaders who help other people flourish … tend to be generous.” Share on X “Positive energizing leaders are those who help other people flourish.” Share on X “On an individual level, people can, and should, craft their own jobs.” Share on X “Does anybody get rewarded or recognized, or hired, for being a positive energizer? It is 4X more important in predicting performance than what we normally measure!” Share on XResources Mentioned
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- Connect with Kim: Michiganross.umich.edu
- Kim’s prior guest appearance on The Leadership Podcast.
These are the books mentioned in Kim’s podcast.
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations of "optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. In this new edition of his groundbreaking classic work, Csikszentmihalyi demonstrates the ways this positive state can be controlled, not just left to chance. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience teaches how, by ordering the information that enters our consciousness, we can discover true happiness and greatly improve the quality of our lives.
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
For more than sixty years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this book has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives.
Now this previously revised and updated bestseller is available in trade paperback for the first time to help you achieve your maximum potential throughout the next century! Learn:
* Three fundamental techniques in handling people
* The six ways to make people like you
* The twelve ways to win people to you way of thinking
* The nine ways to change people without arousing resentment
Astroball: The New Way to Win It All
Astroball is the inside story of how a gang of outsiders went beyond the stats to find a new way to win—and not just in baseball. When new Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow and his top analyst, the former rocket scientist Sig Mejdal, arrived in Houston in 2011, they had already spent more than half a decade trying to understand how human instinct and expertise could be blended with hard numbers such as on-base percentage and strikeout rate to guide their decision-making.
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Positively Energizing Leadership: Virtuous Actions and Relationships That Create High Performance
This practical guide, the first to show how leaders can achieve extraordinary results through the positive energy generated by virtuous interactions with employees, is written by one of the giants in the study of positive leadership.
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