How Positive Leaders Use Purpose & Meaning to Create Extraordinary Organizations Pt 1 | Kim Cameron

Here's another study. This is a study done with children who are ages 3 months to 8 months. I mean, long before you're socialized, long before you learn language. So they put a child on a caregiver's lap, have them watch a puppet show for maybe 20 seconds. So a puppet tries to walk across the stage, tries to climb a hill, tries to open a box. Then you have two other puppets. One puppet tries to help support, encourage. The other puppet tries to hinder, puts a block up, you can't make it up the hill, jumps on the box, you can't open the box. Then after 20 or 30 seconds, you bring these two puppets out, put it in front of the child, and the child can select whichever puppet he or she wants to play with. More than 90% of the time, the child select the puppet that tries to help rather than tries to hinder. That is, from the time you're three months, long before you learn language, you're socialized, any of those things. There is an inherent human tendency toward the positive, toward giving, and that's confirmed by another couple of studies.