Sunday, August 17, 2008
POSITIVITY books & movies
What books and movies would you recommend to someone strong (or weak) in Positivity?
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Donald Clifton, Ph.D. 1924-2003
Father of Strengths Psychology and Grandfather of Positive Psychology
Peter F. Drucker, 1909 -2005
"The idea that there are "well-rounded" people, people who have only strengths and no weaknesses ... is a prescription for mediocrity if not incompetence. Strong people always have strong weaknesses. ... And no one is strong in many areas."
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Peter F. Drucker Quote:
"People-decisions are time-consuming, for the simple reason that the Good Lord did not create people as "resources" for organizations. They do not come in proper size and shape for the tasks that have to be done in organization - and they cannot be machined down or re-cast for these tasks. People are always "almost fits" at best. To get the work done with people (...) therefore requires lots of time, thought and judgement."
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Sonja Lyubomirsky's book "The How of Happiness" is most helpful for both people who are quite happy and those who are less happy. One of the many interesting things about this book is that it is indeed a "best of" collection of scientific studies around the causes of happiness. So it is not just personal oppinion of the author. A remarkable key message is that actually only 40% of our happiness is within our power to change, and 50% are set, either at birth or in early childhood. I find this quite interesting in view of Clifton's Positivity talent. It is an interesting evidence that some people are just naturally talented with more Positivity than others. The book is useful for both the ones gifted with Positivity to get even more positive, as well as for those less positive ones (like me) to get at least those 40% right!
Acho que um livro que retrata bem sobre este talento, positivismo, é uma indicacao do Roberto Justus, dos 5 livros que um executivo, mas eu considero, qualquer pessoa, nao pode deixar de ler..."Felicidade, de Eduardo Giannetti da Fonseca", o livro mostra que é impossível obter sucesso na vida se nao somos felizes naquilo que fazemos.
While I was a bit disappointed with Daniel Goleman's classic "Emotional Intelligence" for lack of practical examples, his book "Primal Leadership" (with the co-authors Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee) offers much more practical advise. I am not sure whether I agree with the author's premise that emotional intelligence can be substantially improved by anyone, let alone become a strength. I believe it has a lot to do with talents, such as Empathy, Harmony and Positivity. For this reason, I strongly recommend it to people with these talents.
I quote the book: "Our analysis suggest that, overall, the climate - how people feel about working at a company - can account for 20 to 30 percent of business performance".
"In general, the more emotionally demanding the work, the more empathetic and supportive the leader needs to be. Leaders drive the service climate and thus the predisposition of employees to satisfy customers."
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