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Preview Thursday: Developing a Positive Culture Where People and Performance Thrive

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Goleman, 2007).”. Fortunately, the effect can also be reversed as research shows that working in the vicinity of a positive leader, makes you positive (Goleman, Biyatzis, McKee, 2004). The amygdala in our brains continuously scans the environment for potential dangers, like a smoke detector.”

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

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Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2011). It provides a comprehensive (yet very easy to read) summary of four decades of scientific research on human motivation, exposing a startling mismatch between what science knows and what business does.