The Power of a Positive Team

No One Creates Success Alone 1 1 The Power of Positive 7 2 Positive Teams Create Positive Cultures 13 Create Your Culture 16 Culture Is Dynamic, Not Static 17 Make Your Bus Great 18 Make Your Culture a Priority 18 Invest in the Root 19 Decide to Be Vitamin C 21 The Power Is on the Inside 22 What Do We Want to Be? 22 3 Positive Teams Work Together toward a Shared Vision with a Greater Purpose 25 Shared Vision 28 Greater Purpose 28 Purpose-Driven Goals 29 Vision + Mission 31 Telescope and Microscope 32 Creating Billions and Winning Gold 32 The World’s Largest Family 34 The Table 35 Keep Your Vision and Purpose Alive 36 Make Your Vision and Purpose Come Alive 37 One Word 38 Make Sure Everyone Is on the Bus 39 Everyone Means Everyone 40 4 Positive Teams Work Together with Optimism, Positivity, and Belief 41 Stay Positive Together 43 Believe Together 44 Encourage Each Other 46 Feed the Positive Dog 47 Talk to Yourself 48 Replace Have To with Get To 49 Make the Next Opportunity Great 50 L.O.S.S. 50 Shark or Goldfish 52 Think Like Rookies 52 Defeat Murphy 53 Inside Out 54 Distort Reality 56 Fear or Faith 56 The Positivity Experiment 57 Don’t Stop Believing 59 The Best Is Yet to Come 60 5 Positive Teams Transform and Remove Negativity 63 No Energy Vampires Allowed 66 It Starts at the Culture Level 67 The First Step Is Transformation 68 Remove the Negativity 68 It’s Not Okay to Be Moody 70 Implement the No Complaining Rule 71 Weed and Feed 72 Positive Conflict 73 6 Positive Teams Communicate and Connect 77 Connection Is the Difference between Good and Great 80 It Starts with Communication 82 Where There Is a Void, Negativity Will Fill It 83 Fill the Void 84 One-on-One Communication 85 Why Don’t We Communicate? 85 On a Scale of 1 to 10 87 Listening Enhances Communication 88 Communicate to Connect 89 Team Beats Talent When Talent Isn’t a Team 89 Team + Talent 91 Team Building 93 It’s Worth It 97 Team Grit 99 7 Positive Teams Commit and Care 101 Play Your Notes 104 Team First 104 We before Me 107 Commitment Recognizes Commitment 109 Committing Makes Everyone Better 110 Serve to Be Great 111 Commit to Your Team 112 Do You Care? 113 Care More 114 Craftsmen and Craftswomen 115 You Can’t Fake It 116 8 Positive Teams Are Always Striving to Get Better 119 The One Percent Rule 122 Own the Boat 122 Elite of the Elite 123 Love and Accountability 124 Family and Team 125 Love Tough 127 Positive Discontent 127 Tell-the-Truth Mondays 128 Have the Difficult Conversations 129 Like versus Love 130 Forged in the Fire 132 9 We Are Better Together 133 Meraki 140 Are You a Real Team? 143 11 Thoughts about Teamwork 145 References 147 Let us help you build a Positive, United,and Connected Team 149 Power of a Positive Team Resources 151 Positive U 152 Other Books by Jon Gordon 153