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10 TRAITS FOR MAXIMUM RESULTS Do you have what it takes to succeed in business? When it comes to work performance, we tend to be our own worst critics, and it is often difficult to see where our true strengths lie. The key to overcoming this kind of self-defeating behavior is to change the way we think. Norman Vincent Peale's great classic bestseller, The Power of Positive Thinking, was the first book to introduce positive thinking as a means to personal growth. Now, after years of extensive research and field-testing, working in cooperation with the Peale Center and major corporations nationwide, Scott Ventrella has adapted those concepts into a systematic program for people in business to achieve greater levels of personal and professional performance.
The Power of Positive Thinking in Business provides a practical way for each of us to develop and actually strengthen the ten traits of a positive thinker. When we learn how to overcome negative internal barriers such as fear, lack of self-confidence, and low self-esteem, we develop the traits that characterize a positive thinker:
Optimism Enthusiasm Belief Integrity Courage
Confidence Determination Patience Calmness Focus
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Kenneth Blanchard, Ph.D. author of The One Minute Manager If you read one book this year to help you become more successful in business (and in life), The Power of Positive Thinking in Business should be the one.
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Ken Blanchard co-author, The One Minute Manager If you read one book this year to help you become more successful in business (and in life), The Power of Positive Thinking in Business should be the one. Ventrella has done an outstanding job of adapting Norman Vincent Peale's dynamic principles of Positive Thinking to meet the business challenges of the twenty-first century.
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Marcus Buckingham co-author, First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths Scott Ventrella shows us how to set aside our self-limiting doubts and develop our inherent ability to reach our greatest human potential. The ten traits of a positive thinker can produce powerful results.
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Mary B. Money Dean, Valhalla University, Pepsi-Cola Company Corporate universities like Pepsi's Valhalla have as a primary focus raising not only technical skills but awareness of the traits that improve performance. Ventrella has pointed to important ways in which managers of technical operations in a competitive consumer business can accomplish that goal.
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C. William Pollard Chairman and CEO, the ServiceMaster Company (an $8 billion, 72,000-employee global service organization) The key to an organization's ability to manage change is the attitudinal predisposition of its managers and employees to embrace change. Ventrella's Power of Positive Thinking in Business is exactly the right concept to facilitate change management.
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Michael D. Rodgers Vice President, Georgia-Pacific Corporation (a $25 billion, 85,000-employee producer of forest and paper products) The Power of Positive Thinking in Business provides a process framework that defines specific positive traits directly applicable to the delivery of improved bottom-line results for an organization.
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Jack Lowe, Jr. CEO, TDIndustries, No. 2 on Fortune's list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For People are capable of accomplishing great things, and if they follow the Power of Positive Thinking principles, systematically applied to business, they will greatly enhance their ability to achieve.
About the Author
Scott W. Ventrella is principal of Positive Dynamics, a company that develops and implements performance improvement programs that tap the inherent potential in people. He began his career with the Juran Institute, a leading professional-services firm in quality management. An adjunct professor at Fordham University's Graduate School of Business, Ventrella lives in Ridgefield, Connecticut, with his family.
Table of Contents
ContentsForeword: The Legacy by Ruth Stafford Pealeix
Part One: The Case for Positive Thinking
- A Winning Program
- The Meaning of Positive Thinking
Part Two: From Destructive Thoughts to Positive Goals
- How the Mind Works
- Getting to the Source of Negative Thoughts
- Setting Positive Business Goals, Affirmation, and Visualization
Part Three: The Energizing Power
- The Ten Traits of a Positive Thinker
- Centering Power
- Uplifting Power
- Driving Power
- Holding Power
Resource: The Professional Challenge Worksheet
Acknowledgments
Index