Table of Contents
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
