The Power of Positivity: Good for Business
Feb 16 2009
Geoff Ramsey, co-founder of eMarketer, wrote an awesome tactical article on “How Staying Positive is Good for Business.” As you know, I’ve been writing blog posts for the past 3 months about how fear is so 2008 and that this year, 2009, is the Year of Optimism. Well, it keeps getting harder and harder to truly believe that 2009 will be optimistic as the news media keeps reinforcing doomsday news constantly. So, take a minute to Geoff’s 5 guiding principles of positivity:
1. Understand Your Locus of Control
2. Tighten the Spigot
3. Focus on the Opportunities
4. Leverage Data to Construct Opportunistic Experiments
5. Invest in the Future
I especially like this quote from the article: “I don’t care how hard this period is. You have to have the combination of believing that you will prevail, that you will get out of this, but also not be the Pollyanna who ignores the brutal facts. You have to say that we will be in this for a long time and we will turn it into a defining event, a big catalyst to make ourselves a much stronger enterprise.”
—Jim Collins, management guru, as quoted in Fortune, February 2, 2009
I’d also like to hear from all of you about a specific positive personal or business experience or news that you’ve read that stood out above the rest – please comment below (in haiku format, of course).
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February 16th, 2009 at 7:38 am
eroi strives to keep
awesomeness, attractiveness,
free of charge. skadoosh
February 16th, 2009 at 8:09 am
Like a waterfall,
let the positive cascade
through your attitude.
February 16th, 2009 at 8:17 am
Woke Up To Sunshine
Makes for a really Great Day
Lets Hope this year is better!
February 16th, 2009 at 9:41 am
heard of The Secret
it’s a great movie about
the power of thoughts
February 16th, 2009 at 9:44 am
The sun in my eyes
I awoke to a blue sky
Today is brand new
February 16th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Donating your time,
through Hab For Humanity,
helps folks thrive and smile.
February 16th, 2009 at 10:59 am
It is important
that we continue to hope
for a better time
February 16th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Joyful today
Life brings
Good experiences my way
February 17th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
take the negatives
now we put them all in pairs
we’re, like, positive!
March 4th, 2009 at 5:02 am
Thanks for the information.
Rocky
Drug Intervention Maine