Book tip: The positive effect

Up to now, management has often relied on performance drivers such as benchmarking programs or employee participation in the company's results to increase productivity. This often achieves only unsatisfactory results. With a change in attitude, according to the authors, performance can be increased by up to 100 percent.

Decisions

Our everyday working lives are often characterised by little scope for decision-making, strict corporate hierarchies and increasing acceleration. Managers move in a world with a focus on problems.

Sven Voelpel is Professor of Business Administration at Jacobs University Bremen as well as a visiting professor in over twelve countries on four continents, including St. Gallen, INSEAD and Harvard University. Fabiola Gerpott works as a scientific consultant and received her doctorate in business administration from Jacobs University Bremen.

Now the authors want to turn the often strategic tunnel vision of managers on its head, help to develop a positive attitude. What's more, they show how to use this to create value in management. They prove the "positive effect" with numerous practical examples and give concrete impulses for action for leadership, teamwork, strategy development or the development of a new corporate image.

self-test attached

With the self-test "Mindset Optimism" every reader can place himself on the action field of the positive effect.

Although for some the goal of optimistic realism may seem paradoxical at first glance, after reading it is clear: it is precisely the union of intuition and rationality, of intense feelings and focus, of optimism and implementation orientation that allows sustainable creativity, performance and satisfaction to emerge. The authors encourage us to initiate positive changes in the world of work.

The book "The Positive Effect" will be published by Campus Verlag on February 16, 2017. You can find the current spring preview under this Link