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Positive Leadership: Strategies for Extraordinary Performance by [Kim Cameron]

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Positive Leadership: Strategies for Extraordinary Performance 2nd Edition, Kindle Edition

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    Berrett-Koehler Publishers
  4. Publication date
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Positive Leadership Positive Organizational Scholarship Positively Energizing Leadership Practicing Positive Leadership Making the Impossible Possible
Also by Kim Cameron This is the introduction to the new field of positive leadership, which helps leaders in all types of organizations reach beyond ordinary success to achieve extraordinary effectiveness, spectacular results, and positively deviant performance. This book invites organizational scholars to build upon and extend the positive organizational phenomena being examined. It provides the definitional, theoretical, and empirical foundations for what will become a cumulative body of enduring work. 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. The first practical guide to implementing positive leadership, which helps leaders in all types of organizations reach beyond ordinary success to achieve extraordinary effectiveness, spectacular results, and positively deviant performance. Kim Cameron delivers both a riveting story and a thoroughly researched case study that delves into the spectacularly impossible success of the shutdown and clean-up of Rocky Flats, one of the most notorious nuclear weapons plants in the US.

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Kim Cameron is William Russell Kelly Professor of Management and Organizations at the University of Michigan and cofounder of the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship. He is coauthor or co-editor of fourteen books, including Developing Management Skills, Positive Organizational Scholarship, and Making the Impossible Possible. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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"As innovation, knowledge work, and the stress of global competition become increasingly important features of exceptional organizations, the practice of positive leadership becomes especially relevant. This book is well-worth the quick read and can serve as a valued companion as you generate your own positively deviant performance."
-Sam Farry, Graziadio Business Report, Pepperdine University
 --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B008HUYOD4
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berrett-Koehler Publishers; 2 edition (Aug. 6 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2409 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 166 pages
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Kim S. Cameron

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Kim Cameron is recognized as the foremost expert on positive relational energy, which is generated by virtuous actions and can have a profound impact on an organization’s success and an individual’s professional and personal life. Over the years, his research on organizational virtuousness and the development of “cultures of abundance” has been published in more than 140 academic articles and 15 scholarly books, and he was recently recognized as being among the top 10 scholars in the organizational sciences whose work has been most frequently downloaded from Google.

His latest book, Positively Energizing Leadership: Virtuous Actions and Relationships that Create High Performance, is a culmination of his research and discoveries over the past couple of decades. He is the first author to examine scientific research around individual attraction and response to the presence of positive energy. He provides in-depth insights based on validated research around the effect of positively energizing leadership on an organization and its employees.

Cameron serves as the William Russell Kelly Professor of Management and Organizations in the Ross School of Business and Professor of Higher Education in the School of Education at the University of

Michigan and consults with a variety of leading business, government, and educational organizations around the world. He is a co-founder of the Center for Positive Organizations at the University of Michigan.

Cameron received BS and MS degrees from Brigham Young University and MA and PhD degrees from Yale University. He served on the National Research Council, was president of Bay Asset Funding Corporation, and was a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar. He is a Fellow in the Academy of Management and a recipient of the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society’s Outstanding Educator Award.

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