In Shawn Achor's inspiring book Before Happiness, he explains that people tend to see the world in ways that confirm their fundamental beliefs about it. 'That reality is the key to everything,' he writes. 'It is what lets you see opportunities instead of obstacles, new roads instead of dead ends, paths to success instead of failure.' Achor shows how you can develop a mindset, and a set of skills, that he calls "positive genius." When you cultivate this can-do outlook, you'll see and be empowered by incredible new opportunities.
Research supports the idea that confident, optimistic founders and CEOs create more value-and better, happier workplaces, too. A 2007 study in International Coaching Psychology Review by Dana Arakawa and Margaret Greenberg found that optimism in business leaders correlates significantly with employee optimism and project performance. A 2021 study by researchers from DePaul University and Stevens Institute of Technology examined CEO option-exercise behavior, finding that CEO optimism results in an additional value of roughly 17 to 23 percent.
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