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Positively Energizing Leadership: Virtuous Actions and Relationships That Create High Performance Paperback – August 3, 2021

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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.

This book reveals one of the most important but frequently ignored factors that lead to spectacular performance in organizations. Kim Cameron, a true pioneer in the study of positive leadership, offers validated scientific evidence that all individuals are inherently attracted to and flourish in the presence of positive energy, a principle known in biology as heliotropism. Further, he shows that the positive relational energy generated by leaders’ virtuous behaviors—such as generosity, compassion, gratitude, trustworthiness, forgiveness, and kindness—is tightly linked to extraordinary organizational outcomes like greater innovation, higher profits, and increased engagement and retention.

Cameron has not written a feel-good tome about the power of positive thinking, “happiology,” or unbridled optimism. This research-based explanation shows how to achieve performance that exceeds expectations. He provides practical suggestions, assessments, and exercises showing how leaders can improve their own positive energy and increase positive relational energy in their organizations. Positively Energizing Leadership is a major contribution to the theory and practice of leadership.
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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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“As someone who has won at every major level of basketball, I know the competitive advantage created by positive leaders that outwardly believe in their team, and the energizing effects they have on team members. Kim Cameron’s book proficiently describes the outsized production that is available to every team or group through promoting virtuousness and positive relational energy. It is a championship-level, worthy strategy.”
—Shane Battier, 1997 Naismith Boys High School Player of the Year; 2001 Naismith Men’s College Player of the Year; 2001 NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship; 2012 and 2013 NBA Championships, and Vice President of Basketball Development and Analytics, Miami HEAT

“Kim’s work with our staff and teams over the past several years has had amazing results. Our best teams referenced his research several times in our successful runs in the postseason. This book is a must-read for anyone in a leadership position who wants to enjoy immediate and lasting positive change.”
—John Beilein, former Head Coach, University of Michigan Men’s Basketball and Cleveland Cavaliers

“In my role as the CEO of EOS—the technological leader in industrial 3D printing—I have discovered the extraordinary impact of positively energizing leadership. This book showcases how to achieve impressive top- and bottom-line results by empowering team players, honest feedback, and virtuous leaders.”
—Marie Langer, CEO, EOS

“I have encountered many challenges in my career as the founder and leader of several pharmaceutical and biotech businesses. Focusing on the heliotropic effect has helped me become a virtuous leader by utilizing positive relational energy. This book is the first to explain what this is and how it can make a profound, positive difference in your personal and professional life.”
—Roger Newton, former Senior Vice President, Pfizer Global R&D; founder and former CEO, Esperion Therapeutics; and Director, several life sciences companies

“In my leadership role at Bosch, I continue to be inspired by the extraordinary impact of positively energized leadership. This book is a valuable resource to assess and identify how and why this kind of leadership produces dramatic bottom-line results for organizations and their employees.”
—Charlie Ackerman, Senior Vice President of Human Resources North America, Robert Bosch GmbH

“During my forty years of research on the science of well-being, I have seen a lot of hype passed off as positive psychology. Kim Cameron’s book is very different. Both scientists and practitioners will learn a lot from this book. I highly recommend it!”
—Ed Diener, founding Editor, Perspectives on Psychological Science; former President, International Positive Psychology Association; distinguished professor emeritus of psychology, University of Illinois; professor of psychology, University of Utah and University of Virginia; and Senior Scientist, Gallup

“The role of positive energy, positive relationships, and positive leadership in organizations is expertly outlined in this book by Kim Cameron, who shows how companies can grow through challenging times and make the most of success factors during good times. I have been following Dr. Cameron’s research for more than three decades, and he never disappoints. This book offers the perfect balance of science and practice. It is transformative and should be on the desk of every leader.”
—Dr. Lea Waters, AM, PhD, organizational psychologist; member, Order of Australia; Inaugural Gerry Higgins Chair in Positive Psychology, Centre for Positive Psychology, University of Melbourne; former President, International Positive Psychology Association; registered psychologist, AHPRA; and member, Australian Psychological Society

About the Author

Kim Cameron is professor of management and organizations at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, cofounder of the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship, and professor of higher education in the School of Education, all at the University of Michigan. Previously, Cameron served as dean and professor of management in the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University and associate dean and Ford Motor Company/Richard E. Cook Professor in the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berrett-Koehler Publishers (August 3, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1523093838
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1523093830
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.56 x 0.63 x 8.5 inches
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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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E. Hess
5.0 out of 5 stars Leadership is all about Behaviors - Virtuous Behaviors.
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2021
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This book captivated my mind and my heart. It is an OUTSTANDING book written by a humble compassionate “giant” in the field of Positivity.

It is science-based, practical, and inspirational with a compelling story about how leaders can enable consistent high performance. The main “characters” in this book are “Positive Energy”; Positive Relational Energy”; and “Virtuous Actions”. “Positively Energizing Leaders” enable higher organizational and individual performance by consistently behaving virtuously. Leadership all comes down to behavior – not slogans or published value statements. This book substantiates that by sharing research, case studies and practical tools.
I highly recommend it to you.
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Brenda Yoho
4.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing, Developing, Creating and Producing a positive light full of energy!
Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2021
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It intrigued me from the beginning as my friends and family call me “A big cheese or Hallmark” kind of individual.
It is a science-based, practical, and inspirational story about how leaders can enable consistently high performance. Positively Energizing Leadership is more than surface accolades. You need more than a printed value, mission, or vision statement. This story leads you through the dark into the light needed to generate the sparks you need to start a change. Let's get back to the behaviors of generosity, compassion, gratitude, trustworthiness, forgiveness, and kindness to achieve the goals we establish.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Life changing
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The concepts in this book were transforming for my work and personal relationships.
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Eileen Hahn
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!
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Ircel Harrison
4.0 out of 5 stars A Positive Approach to Leadership
Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2021
If you assume that Kim Cameron’s book is about making people happy at work, you are shortchanging this contribution to leadership literature. Cameron’s thesis is this: All human beings flourish in the presence of light or of positive energy. This is called the heliotropic effect. The kind of positive energy that usually accounts for the flourishing of individuals and organizations is called relational energy. In this book, Cameron explains how relational energy is created and enhanced through the demonstration of virtuous actions by leaders.

Those familiar with leadership literature will find a great deal of commonality with the work of others such as Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee in Resonant Leadership but Cameron offers another model for leaders to consider. His contemporaneous engagement with the pandemic makes his writing especially fresh and engaging. He reminds us, “In order to effectively manage turbulent circumstances, we must identify something that is stable, universal and constant.” This is his antidote to the VUCA—volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous—world in which we find ourselves.

Cameron cites three important conclusions from research on positive energy in organizations. First, people who are positive energizers are higher performers than others. Second, positive energizers impact the performance of those with whom they interact. Third, highly performing organizations have many more positive energizers than normal organizations—as many as three times more. He devotes the remainder of the book to showing how leadership can exemplify, develop, and maintain positive energy in leaders and organizations.

The author is very practical, providing guidelines, questions, and examples. Of particular interest is a chart of the attribute of positively energizing leaders.

This is not light reading, but it will engage those seeking to take their organization to a new level.
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Jeffrey N. Mccollum
5.0 out of 5 stars Human Values Ennoble Human Beings (and organizations)
Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2021
Virtuous behavior is its own reward.
Virtuous behavior, pursued in good faith, it turns out also improves organizational results in terms of productivity, innovation, retention, meaning and relational energy. This is the main thesis of Kim Cameron’s recently-released book. For those who believe in humanitarian values and servant leadership, the book might reinforce your approach to leading. For those who dismiss humanitarian values as “soft” or “touchy-feely” or “out of psych with business reality”, the impressive array of behavioral studies which support the positive effects of “positivism” on results marshalled by Cameron in the book might give you pause (cause) to rethink your assumptions.
Robert Greenleaf, long-time executive with ATT and author of The Leader as Servant defined the best test of a servant leader as “Do those served grow as individuals, personally as well as professionally?
In asserting the power of positive leadership (which can come from every part of an organization and not just top-down), Kim Cameron slightly paraphrases John Adams, “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more you are a positively energizing leader.” Positive energy, he contends, is relational energy and, unlike other forms of energy, grows rather than subsides with use.
Virtuousness drives positive relational energy which drives positive organizational outcomes.
Pursued as a tactic or ingenuously, positivity will create cynicism and backlash and will be counter productively. Pursued authentically it can lift organizations to unprecedented levels.
Cameron identifies 15 behaviors that create positive relation energy in organizations: helping others flourish without expecting a payback, expressing gratitude and humility, instilling confidence and self-efficacy, smiling, forgiving weakness, knowing about peoples’ lives outside of work, sharing plum assignments, listening actively and empathetically, being optimistic and realistic, solving problems, providing meaning (explaining why things are being done), trusting and being trustworthy, acting authentically, expecting high standards of performance, and mobilizing positive energizers throughout the organization.
In addition to citing research that supports his thesis, Cameron offers suggestions of organizational approaches to creating relational energy. One is to survey—on a team or organizational level—to identify the positive energizers in the organization. The appendix to the book offers tools that can help create network maps of positive energizers.
Virtuous behavior is sorely needed at every level of system is today’s environment of low trust of institutions and VUCA (volatile, uncertain, chaos, ambiguous) circumstances. Virtuous behavior builds trust which, based on a 2018 publication, is low. In that survey 12% reported that they trust big companies and 12% think that business leaders have high ethical standards. (Public leaders fare no better.)
Positivity is naturally attractive to human beings. Cameron compares it to heliotropic effects in nature in which all elements in nature are drawn to light. Each of us—wherever we find ourselves in organizations—can be sources of light to others in the organization.
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