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Jon Gordon
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December 24, 2022 - March 6, 2023
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.
Positivity is more than a state of mind. It's a power that gives teams a competitive advantage in business, sports, creativity, and life.
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.
The future belongs to those who believe in it and work
together with other positive people in order to create it.
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 more you energize people in your workplace, the higher your work performance.”
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.”
Many think that you have to choose between positivity and winning, but you don't. Positivity leads to winning.
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...
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Because they care more, they
do more, invest more, commit more, and accomplish more.
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.
Apple is famous for its maxim, “Culture beats strategy.”
it is your culture that will determine whether your strategy is successful.
Your most important job as a team is to cr...
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Boston Celtics head coach Brad Stevens says, “Your culture is not just your tradition. It's the people in the locker room who carry it on.”
You are creating culture every moment of every day by what you think, say, and do.
Culture is not static; it's dynamic. You can change it by what you say. You can elevate it by what you think. You can improve it by what you share. You can transform it by what you do. You can be a positive team that creates a positive culture right now.
The fruit is just a by-product of how well you invest in the root.
If you focus on the fruit and ignore the root, the tree will die. If you invest in the root and make culture a priority, you will receive an abundant and steady supply of fruit.
To create your culture you must identify what you stand for and what you want to be known for.
Identify what you stand for.
your team success starts with having a shared vision of where your team is going, and a greater purpose of why you are going there.
One of the most powerful ways to be a powerful team is to have purpose-driven goals rather than numerical goals.
numbers were just a
by-product of how well they were living and sharing their purpose.
I told them that every person in every NFL meeting room has the same goals. It's not the goals that will make you successful, otherwise everyone and every team would be successful after writing down their goals. Instead, it's your commitment to the process, your growth and your purpose that drives you to reach these goals, that will determine what you accomplish. I then had them write down their commitments and purpose for playing and had them share with the rest of the team. It was powerful.
The truth is that numbers and goals don't drive people. People with a purpose drive the numbers and achieve goals.
once you identify a goal or outcome, you will be more powerful and energized if you are tapping into a bigger purpose in order to reach your numbers and goals.
We don't get burned out because of what we do. We get burned out because we forget why we do it.
egos don't get in the way when you have a team that is driven by a shared vision and a greater purpose.
make sure you take time for what matters most.
write down your vision and purpose and find ways to keep them alive.
Each day, you can feed the positive dog or the negative dog inside yourselves, and whichever one you feed, grows.
“I've learned to talk to myself instead of listen to myself.”
He memorized scripture and would recite it to himself when he needed a boost.
Think like a rookie, forget the past, and create your good ole days right now.
Remind each other that fear and faith have one thing in common—they both believe in a future that hasn't happened yet.
A positive team
can withstand the negative forces coming at them, but they will crumble if the negativity comes from within. Positive teams know and believe that outside forces cannot truly defeat them. They can only defeat themselves.
One of the best ways to create a positive team environment and transform a toxic
team culture is to implement the no complaining rule.
Positive teams work together more effectively.
Conflict is necessary to have a strong team.
