Are 10 Darth Vaders or 5 Yodas Leading You?
Goal: Introduce the ideas from Positive Intelligence
Hands down the biggest changer for me this year has not been the pandemic BUT discovery of a book that I can not stop thinking about every day.
What is the book?
The book is Positive Intelligence by Shirzad Chamine. What is interesting is that I noted this book back in 2016 and even took a few pictures of key ideas. BUT I did nothing with these ideas. What reintroduced me to the book was that I recently listened to a podcast with the author on Cal Fussman’s show. Hearing his voice and explanations resonated with me at this moment.
Why is this book a game changer?
I believe that we all go through life experiencing and trying to do our “best” in every situation. When we are younger we adopt to situations but some of those adaptations later sabotage our adult lives. For example, if you are constantly berated when little, you might adopt a pleaser personality trait that later on in your adult life can hurt you greatly.
Mr. Chamine does a great job of exposing the 10 Saboteurs and 5 Sages we all posses to a degree. He takes the time to drill into numerous examples and cases of how he has applied this theory to improve people and teams.
My recommendation is that you start with the evaluation on his website positiveintelligence.com. Be brutally honest when answering to get the full value of the evaluation. Remember that you are the person easiest to fool. So do not!!!! Once you get the results, print them out, read them, and study them. Lastly, read the book and constantly refer to your scores.
It is a game changer! Since reading it I have noticed my Saboteurs often and are trying to use the techniques of the Sage to improve my responses.
I am hoping that the investment in this book will guide you to your better future self.
I got to go…my future self alarm went off
Robert Trajkovski is professional with experience in leading people and projects in Steel/ Power, Refining, Chemicals, Industrial Gasses, Software, Consulting and Academia. He has worked for both owners and engineering companies. In addition, he has instructed 73+ courses at several institutions and often offers his courses for free on LinkedIn.
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