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The Power of Positive Energy in Leadership #shorts

5 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube clip in which the speaker (Ashish Kothari) emphasizes the empirically meaningful impact of "positively energizing" leadership. The speaker cites a study finding that exposure to a positive leader was the single most important predictor of employee well-being, innovation, productivity, and even employees' family well-being, and argues that this shows the effects are substantive and worth attention beyond superficial positivity.

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One of the reasons that I got involved with and interested in this concept of positive energy, or especially positively energizing leadership, is because it's one of those things that empirically it accounts for a lot of variance. In one particular study, for example, the extent to which people were exposed to a positive leader was the single most important predictor in well being, innovation, productivity, and interestingly, the most interesting finding, family well being. That is, it was outside of work impact that made such a big difference. So it's not hard to say we ought to pay attention to this. We ought to take this seriously. It's not just sing a happy tune and walk around with a smile on your face. There really are honest to goodness outcomes that matter a lot.