Cover -- Praise for Lead Positive -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Lead Positive -- People Follow People, Not Ideas -- The Asset-Based Thinking Advantage for Leaders -- The Lead Positive Framework: See-Say-Do -- The Lead Positive Advantage at Work -- PART 1: What Highly Effective Leaders See -- 1: What You See Is What You Get -- The Power of Perceptual Sets -- Our Negativity Bias at Work -- How Your Mind Sculpts Your Brain -- The See-Think-Feel Awareness Tool -- The ASA Shift -- Resourcing Yourself as a Leader -- The Five-to-One Principle -- Equifax Workforce Solutions -- The Third Way -- What You See over Time -- 2: Focus on the Past -- DuPont Company -- Gary Spitzer's Story: My Application of ABT -- A Focus on the Team -- Gary Spitzer's Story: The Genius of Our Team -- A Focus on the Situation -- ABT Force Field Analysis -- Gary Spitzer's Story: The Situation Was Our Ally -- What Was My ROI? -- From Past to Present -- 3: Focus on the Present -- Kairos Moments and Opportunities -- Scan-Snap-Savor -- Step 1: Scan -- Step 2: Snap -- Step 3: Savor -- Seizing the Kairos Opportunity -- Seizing Opportunity from Negative Dynamics -- From Present to Future -- 4: Focus on the Future -- Envisioning a Positive Future -- A Self-Oriented Start to a Positive Future -- Who Is on Your Mount Rushmore? -- An Other-Oriented Start to a Positive Future -- What Do You Need? What Do You Want? -- A Situation-Oriented Start to a New Future -- Positive Provocations -- Leadership by Lightning or Listening -- PART 2: What Highly Effective Leaders Say -- 5: From See to Say -- Saying It with Substance, Sizzle, and Soul -- What You Say and How You Say It -- The Substance-Sizzle-Soul Connection -- 6: Say It with Substance -- Practice, Practice, Practice -- Janice's Story -- Substance as Your Credibility Card.

Say It with Substance Self-Tests -- How to Say It with Substance -- Substance in Action -- 7: Say It with Sizzle -- The Hero's Journey -- Step 1: The Call -- Step 2: The Resistance -- Step 3: The Threshold Crossing -- Step 4: The Journey -- Step 5: The Supreme Ordeal -- Step 6: The Return Home -- An ABT Leader with Sizzle -- Say It with Sizzle Self-Tests -- How to Say It with Sizzle -- Self -- Others -- Situation -- Sizzle in Action -- Step 1: The Call -- Step 2: The Resistance -- Step 3: The Threshold Crossing -- Step 4: The Journey -- Step 5: The Supreme Ordeal -- Step 6: The Return Home -- 8: Say It with Soul -- Show Your Skin in the Game -- Leaders Who Say It with Soul -- How Leading with Soul Can Inspire a New Sense of Pride: The Peabody Story -- Small Shifts in Soulfulness, Big Difference in Satisfaction -- Say It with Soul Self-Tests -- How to Say It with Soul -- My Sincerity Profile -- My Leadership Life Map -- Self-Others-Situation Framework for Saying It with Soul -- Self -- Others -- Situation -- Soul in Action -- PART 3: What Highly Effective Leaders Do -- 9: From Say to Do: It's a Very Short Trip -- The See-Say-Do Chain Reaction -- A Virtuous Cycle -- 10: Reactive or Responsive: It's Up to You -- The Wider the Lens, the Better the View -- Reading Your Body in Real Time -- Asset-Based Thinking Leadership Strategies for Responsiveness -- Strategy 1: Take Ten -- Strategy 2: Get Off the Field and into the Stands -- Strategy 3: Act, Observe, Reflect -- Memories Provide Momentum -- 11: Start Being Before You Start Doing -- When I Am at My Best: A Self-Reflection Tool -- The Three Cs -- Being Confident in Response to a Crisis -- Being Curious in Response to Conflict -- Being Courageous in Response to Challenges -- Being Courageous During a Divestiture -- Recall, Remember, and Apply -- From Being to Doing -- 12: Driving Positive Change.

Post-Katrina New Orleans: A Story of Transformational Change -- Stage I: Envision -- Stage II: Explore -- Stage III: Invent -- Stage IV: Transform -- The Seven Key Dos of Positive Change -- Stage I: Envision -- Stage II: Explore -- Stage III: Invent -- Stage IV: Transform -- 13: The Asset-Based Leadership Advantage -- Stage I: Envision -- See -- Say -- Do -- Stage II: Explore -- See -- Say -- Do -- Stage III: Invent -- See -- Say -- Do -- Stage IV: Transform -- See and Say -- Do -- Scan-Snap-Savor -- Conclusion: Your Lead Positive Hero's Journey -- Notes -- About the Author -- Index -- More from Wiley.