Hard Optimism: How to Succeed in a World Where Positive Wins (BUSINESS BOOKS) - Hardcover

Pritchett, Price

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071485457 ISBN 13: 9780071485456

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2007

Synopsis

Price Pritchett, one of the world's most renowned thought leaders on corporate culture and organizational change, presents a groundbreaking program for developing the positive mental practices that will not only improve your performance on the job, but enhance the quality of every part of your life.

Drawing upon research from the influential field of positive psychology, Pritchett shows you how to adopt hard optimism-a forward-thinking mindset that incorporates resilience, energy, innovation, and hope into the way you approach every task. Hard Optimism gives you 12 powerful, proven practices for reducing negative thinking and adopting the attitude of a winner-the keys to seizing opportunity, overcoming obstacles, and wielding a positive influence on the people around you.

With the action steps outlined in Hard Optimism, you'll discover how to:

• Recognize and dispute pessimistic thoughts
• Gain an edge by adopting an optimistic style to interpret events, both good and bad
• Use positive reappraisal to handle problems and disappointments
• Know how and when to use negative thinking to your advantage
• Play to your signature strengths
• Practice gratitude and forgiveness to fight off negativity

By taking a hard look at reality rather than sugarcoating it, by managing your thought processes to improve hard results, you'll master hard optimism and meet the challenges in every area of your career and life.

About this title

Synopsis

This book presents a groundbreaking approach to developing the attitude of a winner - one that incorporates resilience, energy, innovation, and hope company-wide. For more than 30 years, Price Pritchett has shaped management perspectives around the globe. "Hard Optimism" is the most in-depth, comprehensive overview of his methodology, examining how the thoughts, feelings, and attitudes of an organization and its people determine both day-to-day performance and future growth. Pritchett gives you a disciplined way to think, act, and support a culture that promotes the ability to seize opportunities, rather than seeing only obstacles."Hard Optimism" offers 12 practices to develop this discipline and strengthen any company against its competition; generate better relationships with suppliers, customers, and partners; and create a high-performing organization."Hard Optimism" helps every organization to strengthen its position against the competition; generate better relationships with suppliers; create more powerful connections with customers and partners; and establish high performance that meets uncertainty, opportunity, and change.

From the Back Cover

Imagine being able to prepare for change before it happens in your organization. Imagine a state of mind that allows you to withstand shock and uncertainty, make the most of opportunity, and be more effective in the face of adversity. Imagine being part of a team that delivers consistently and ensures the future of the business.

You can. All it takes is Hard Optimism.

“Price Pritchett's insights about the power of the mind in helping individuals respond to a world of unrelenting change are remarkable.”-Gary Snodgrass, Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, Exelon Corporation

“Hard Optimism is the scientists' manual on how to be positive-even when you don't feel like it.”-W. Michael Cox, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

“In Hard Optimism, Price Pritchett provides a liberating message-change our thoughts and we change our future.”-Peter Lee, Director, Corporate Learning and Development, Asia Pacific Region, Honeywell

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0071485457
• ISBN 13: 9780071485456
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144