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- Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
- Kategorie: Fachliteratur
- Serie: Jon Gordon
- Sprache: Englisch
More than 200,000 sold
A book about teams to help teams become more positive, united and connected.
Worldwide bestseller — the author of The Energy Bus and The Power of Positive Leadership shares the proven principles and practices that build great teams - and provides practical tools to help teams overcome negativity and enhance their culture, communication, connection, commitment and performance.
Jon Gordon doesn’t just research the keys to great teams, he has personally worked with some of the most successful teams on the planet and has a keen understanding of how and why they became great. In The Power of a Positive Team, Jon draws upon his unique team building experience as well as conversations with some of the greatest teams in history in order to provide an essential framework, filled with proven practices, to empower teams to work together more effectively and achieve superior results.
Utilizing examples from the writing team who created the hit show Billions, the National Champion Clemson Football team, the World Series contending Los Angeles Dodgers, The Miami Heat and the greatest beach volleyball team of all time to Navy SEAL’s, Marching bands, Southwest Airlines, USC and UVA Tennis, Twitter, Apple and Ford, Jon shares innovative strategies to transform a group of individuals into a united, positive and powerful team.
Jon not only infuses this book with the latest research, compelling stories, and strategies to maintain optimism through adversity… he also shares his best practices to transform negativity, build trust (through his favorite team building exercises) and practical ways to have difficult conversations—all designed to make a team more positive, cohesive, stronger and better.
The Power of a Positive Team also provides a blueprint for addressing common pitfalls that cause teams to fail—including complaining, selfishness, inconsistency, complacency, unaccountability—while offering solutions to enhance a team’s creativity, grit, innovation and growth.
This book is meant for teams to read together. It’s written in such a way that if you and your team read it together, you will understand the obstacles you will face and what you must do to become a great team. If you read it together, stay positive together, and take action together you will accomplish amazing things TOGETHER.
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CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
No One Creates Success Alone
Chapter 1: The Power of Positive
Chapter 2: Positive Teams Create Positive Cultures
Create Your Culture
Culture Is Dynamic, Not Static
Make Your Bus Great
Make Your Culture a Priority
Invest in the Root
Decide to Be Vitamin C
The Power Is on the Inside
What Do We Want to Be?
Chapter 3: Positive Teams Work Together toward a Shared Vision with a Greater Purpose
Shared Vision
Greater Purpose
Purpose-Driven Goals
Vision + Mission
Telescope and Microscope
Creating Billions and Winning Gold
The World's Largest Family
The Table
Keep Your Vision and Purpose Alive
Make Your Vision and Purpose Come Alive
One Word
Make Sure Everyone Is on the Bus
Everyone Means Everyone
Chapter 4: Positive Teams Work Together with Optimism, Positivity, and Belief
Stay Positive Together
Believe Together
Encourage Each Other
Feed the Positive Dog
Talk to Yourself
Replace Have To with Get To
Make the Next Opportunity Great
L.O.S.S.
Shark or Goldfish
Think Like Rookies
Defeat Murphy
Inside Out
Distort Reality
Fear or Faith
The Positivity Experiment
Don't Stop Believing
The Best Is Yet to Come
Chapter 5: Positive Teams Transform and Remove Negativity
No Energy Vampires Allowed
It Starts at the Culture Level
The First Step Is Transformation
Remove the Negativity
It's Not Okay to Be Moody
Implement the No Complaining Rule
Weed and Feed
Positive Conflict
Chapter 6: Positive Teams Communicate and Connect
Connection Is the Difference between Good and Great
It Starts with Communication
Where There Is a Void, Negativity Will Fill It
Fill the Void
One-on-One Communication
Why Don't We Communicate?
On a Scale of 1 to 10
Listening Enhances Communication
Communicate to Connect
Team Beats Talent When Talent Isn't a Team
Team + Talent
Team Building
It's Worth It
Team Grit
Chapter 7: Positive Teams Commit and Care
Play Your Notes
Team First
We before Me
Commitment Recognizes Commitment
Committing Makes Everyone Better
Serve to Be Great
Commit to Your Team
Do You Care?
Care More
Craftsmen and Craftswomen
You Can't Fake It
Chapter 8: Positive Teams Are Always Striving to Get Better
The One Percent Rule
Own the Boat
Elite of the Elite
Love and Accountability
Family and Team
Love Tough
Positive Discontent
Tell-the-Truth Mondays
Have the Difficult Conversations
Like versus Love
Forged in the Fire
Chapter 9: We Are Better Together
Meraki
Are You a Real Team?
11 Thoughts about Teamwork
References
Let us Help You Build a Positive, United, and Connected Team
Power of a Positive Team Resources
Positive U
Become a Certified Positive Leadership Coach, Speaker, & Trainer
Attend a Power of Positive Leadership Training Event
Other Books by Jon Gordon
The Energy Bus
The No Complaining Rule
Training Camp
The Shark and the Goldfish
Soup
The Seed
One Word
The Positive Dog
The Carpenter
The Hard Hat
You Win in the Locker Room First
Life Word
The Power of Positive Leadership
The Energy Bus Field Guide
The Coffee Bean
The Energy Bus for Kids
Thank You and Good Night
The Hard Hat for Kids
End User License Agreement
Guide
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The Power of a Positive Team
Proven Principles and Practices That Make Great Teams Great
Jon Gordon
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For my wife, Kathryn, and my children, Jade and Cole. You are my team and I thank you for making me better.
No One Creates Success Alone
We are better together, and together we accomplish great things.
No one creates success alone. We all need a team to be successful. We are better together, and together we accomplish great things. Teams publish a book like this. Teams win Super Bowls and championships. Teams launch rockets into outer space. Teams perform open heart surgery and find cures for diseases. Teams design, build, and sell automobiles, phones, computers, video games, software, homes, and the latest and greatest products. Teams create commercials, movies, songs, and advertisements. Teams educate children in schools and run nonprofits that feed the poor, heal the sick, shelter the homeless, and provide safe drinking water in developing countries. Teams mobilize support for victims of natural disasters and help fight human trafficking. Teams work together to launch initiatives, companies, brands, products, and missions that change the world.
I know about teams. I've been on teams most of my life. My older brother played youth football and, at the age of six, I begged my parents to let me be on his team. I was too young to play, but they let me join in and gave me a jersey with the number ½ on it. Growing up I was a part of numerous youth sports teams, and in high school I played basketball, lacrosse, and football. In college I played on the Cornell lacrosse team and the experience had a profound impact on my life. As an adult I have been a part of restaurant teams as a waiter, bartender, and eventual owner. I served on a school team as a teacher and worked on a sales team as a salesperson for a technology company. I've been on several leadership teams for start-up businesses and nonprofits, and I even led a political campaign team when I ran for the Atlanta City Council at the age of 26.
Now I lead a team at work and I'm second-in-command of my team at home. I also get the opportunity to speak to and consult with numerous businesses, educational organizations, nonprofits, and professional and college sports teams. I didn't plan it, but I've become someone that leaders call when they need help developing high-performing and winning teams.
I've discovered over the years that a positive, united team is a powerful team. It doesn't happen by accident. A positive team is created by a group of individuals who come together with vision, purpose, passion, optimism, grit, excellence, communication, connection, love, care, and commitment to do something amazing and create something incredible together. I believe that everyone wants to be part of a great team, but not everyone knows how to become a great team.
That's why I wrote this book. I previously wrote The Power of Positive Leadership and You Win in the Locker Room First, but they were written to help leaders build their teams. I also wrote The Hard Hat, which is about how to be a great teammate, but that was meant more for the individual. This book is meant for teams to read together. I wrote it in such a way that team members could read it together and understand what they need to do to be a positive and connected team. In my work with teams, and through interviews with people who were part of some of the greatest teams in history, I've discovered proven principles and practices that make great teams great. I have shared these principles and practices in this book and my hope is that you will read them with your team, discuss what you need to do to be a great team, and then take action together. If you are willing to learn together, grow together, unite together, and act together, you will accomplish more than you ever thought possible.
Chapter 1The Power of Positive
Positivity is more than a state of mind. It's a power that gives teams a competitive advantage in business, sports, creativity, and life.
I don't encourage teams to be positive just because it's more fun, enjoyable, and rewarding to be part of a positive team. I am passionate about creating positive teams because I know that positive teams are also more engaged and more likely to overcome all the forces against them and make a greater impact.
It's challenging to work toward a vision and create a positive future. It's difficult to launch new ideas, products, movies, missions, and organizations. It's not easy to pursue greatness and do what has never been done before. As a team you will face all kinds of adversity, negativity, and tests. There will be times when it seems as if everything in the world is conspiring against you and your team. There will be moments you want to give up. There will be days when your vision seems more like fantasy than reality. That's why becoming a positive team is so important. When I talk about positive teams, I am not talking about Pollyanna positivity, where you wear rose-colored glasses and ignore the reality of the situation. Positive teams are not about fake positivity. They are about real optimism, vision, purpose, and unity that make great teams great. Positive teams confront the reality of challenging situations and work together to overcome them.
Pessimistic teams don't become legendary. Negative teams talk about and create problems but they don't solve them. Throughout history we see that it's the positive teams that create the future and change the world. The future belongs to those who believe in it and work together with other positive people in order to create it.
I have witnessed the power of a positive team, and the research supports that positivity is a difference maker. Research by Manju Puri and David Robinson at Duke University found that optimistic people were more likely to succeed in business, sports, and politics. Relationship expert John Gottman's pioneering research found that marriages are much more likely to succeed when the couple experiences a five-to-one ratio of positive to negative interactions; when the ratio approaches a one-to-one ratio, marriages are more likely to end in divorce.
The positive energy you share with your team is significant. According to organizational expert Wayne Baker, who works with fellow researcher Robert Cross, “the more you energize people in your workplace, the higher your work performance.” Baker says that this occurs because people want to be around you. You attract talent and people are more likely to devote discretionary time to your projects. They'll offer new ideas, information, and opportunities to you before others.”
When you have a group of people doing this on a team, you create a positive feedback loop that makes your team operate at a higher level. Many think that you have to choose between positivity and winning, but you don't. Positivity leads to winning. The research is clear. Positivity is more than a state of mind. It's a power that gives teams a competitive advantage in business, sports, creativity, and life.
Since there are many different types of teams, I made it a point to include various examples from business, education, sports, music, technology, and more. Please know that even though I share a number of examples of sports teams, I'm aware that not everyone is a sports fan. However, I want to make it clear that the reason why I share these examples is to demonstrate how these principles work in real life.
The great thing about sports teams is that you can observe the effectiveness of these principles over the course of a season. You can tell who has become a positive team and who hasn't. You can see it in person and on television. I've been fortunate to work with many sports teams, and they are great case studies. And since I've also worked with countless businesses and schools, I can assure you the same principles apply to every team and organization. If you are not a fan of sports, simply take the sports example and think about how it applies to your team. You will discover a number of great ideas to make your team better.
Positive teams don't happen by accident. They happen when team members invest their time and energy to create a positive culture; work toward a shared vision with a greater purpose; work together with optimism and belief and overcome the negativity that too often sabotages teams and organizations. Positive teams take on the battle, overcome the negativity, face the adversity, and keep moving forward. They communicate, connect, commit, and encourage each other. They build relationships and trust that makes them stronger.
Positive teams commit to the mission and to each other. Instead of serving themselves, they serve one another. They care more about their effort, work, and teammates than they do about all the distractions vying for their attention. People on positive teams have a lot of belief in each other, a lot of love for each other, and a lot of desire to accomplish something great together. They pursue excellence and always strive to get better and make their team better. They lose their ego in the service of their team and find an uncommon collective greatness in the process. Because they care more, they do more, invest more, commit more, and accomplish more.
Chapter 2Positive Teams Create Positive Cultures
Behind every great team is a strong culture; great leadership; and passionate, committed people.
There's a reason why all great teams have a great culture. It's because culture is the living and breathing essence of what a team believes, values, and does. Team culture is the written and unwritten rules that say how a team communicates, connects, thinks, works, and acts.
Culture isn't just one thing. It's everything. Culture drives expectations and beliefs. Expectations and beliefs drive behaviors. Behaviors drive habits. And habits create the future.
When Apple was just the two Steves (Jobs and Wozniak), they knew the culture they wanted to create. They would be the culture that challenged the status quo. Everything they did, including hiring people, running campaigns, and creating products, was influenced by this culture. Even now, the culture continues to influence everything they do and the way they do it. It's why Apple is famous for its maxim, “Culture beats strategy.” You have to have the right strategy, of course, but it is your culture that will determine whether your strategy is successful.
Your most important job as a team is to create a culture—and not just any culture. You must create a positive culture that energizes and encourages each other, fosters connected relationships and great teamwork, empowers and enables your team to learn and grow, and provides an opportunity for you to do your best work.
Create Your Culture
When I was a sophomore on the Cornell lacrosse team we were ranked ninth in the country. I was the starting face-off midfielder and we played a tough game against West Point that went into sudden-death overtime, which means the first team to score wins. I remember standing at the face-off circle in the middle of the field thinking, If I lose this face-off we will likely lose the game. I need to win it.
I lost the face-off and, the next thing I knew, my opponent was running down the field along the sideline with the ball. I was so mad that I ran as fast as I could and somehow caught up and hit him really hard and the ball fell out of his stick. I picked it up before he did and, as he pushed me out of bounds, I jumped in the air and threw the ball behind my back to my friend and teammate, John Busse, who caught the ball with one hand and threw it to our other teammate, Joe Lando, who scored the game winner for us.
Please know I'm not telling you this to impress you with my athletic ability. It was my one and only great play in college. I'm telling you this because we won so many close games that year. But during my senior year, we lost a lot of close games. We even had a chance to beat Princeton, who won the national championship, in overtime but couldn't pull it off.
