The Positivity Ratio

Barbara Fredrickson shares her research on the ideal ratio of positive to negative emotions, and offers suggestions for how to flourish in life. This is a great talk and you will take away a few treasures. Yesterday’s post, Can People Change? added some additional insight. Dr. Barbara Fredrickson is a world renowned researcher and in Read More …

Can People Change?

Barbara Fredrickson describes how people can change on a fundamental level by changing how they interpret their lot in life. Dr. Barbara Fredrickson is a world renowned researcher and in her latest book, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life gives you lab-tested tools necessary to create a Read More …

3 Tips on achieving Fast, Effective, Sustainable change

Next weeks Business901 podcast guest is Sara Lewis, the Managing Director of Appreciating Change, a psychological change consultancy focused on helping leaders and managers achieve positive change in their organizations. She is the author of Positive Psychology at Work: How Positive Leadership and Appreciative Inquiry Create Inspiring Organizations and one of my favorites, Appreciative Inquiry Read More …

Does Lean solve some problems for ROWE

David Kasprzak, of the popular blog, My Flexible Pencil discussed ROWE in the Business901 podcast this week. ROWE is a concept developed by Jody Thompson and Cali Ressler, co-authors of the book, Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It: The Results-Only Revolution. ROWE stands for  Results-Only Work Environment. It is a revolutionary new way Read More …

An Appreciative Look at the World

Onstage at TED2012, Peter Diamandis makes a case for optimism — that we’ll invent, innovate and create ways to solve the challenges that loom over us. "I’m not saying we don’t have our set of problems; we surely do. But ultimately, we knock them down.” Progress over the past 100 years: Average human life span Read More …

ROWE: Results-Only Work Environment

ROWE stands for  Results-Only Work Environment. It is a revolutionary new way of working that gives employees more responsibility and accountability for their work and the way they do it.  ROWE is the core of the CultureRx philosophy. ROWE is all about results. It’s all you need to increase productivity, engagement, employee retention — AND Read More …