Developing Leaders for Positive Organizing

Rob Koonce, Creighton University, USA Paula Robinson, Sydney Business School and Positive Psychology Institute, University of Wollongong, AustraliaBernd Vogel, Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK

• SECTION I: EMERGENT MINDSET 1. The Emergent Nature of Positive (and Negative) Organizing: Why Mindset Matters; Rob Koonce2. Brunello Cucinelli: An Inspired Leader Who Helps Employees To Have It All; Marcello Russo 3. Fostering an Emergent Mindset in Leaders: The Role of Caring in A Leadership Development Case; Jessica Nicholson and Elizabeth C. Kurucz 4.  Building Positive Collective Mindsets with the "what-we-are-best-at" Group Intervention; Marsha M. Huber, Shirine L. Mafi and Wei WangSECTION II: COURAGE 5. Courage; Arthur Schwartz 6. It Takes Courage: Lessons Learned from Starbucks #RaceTogether Campaign Case Study; Courtney L. McCluney, Laura Morgan Roberts and Lynn Perry Wooten7. Personal Risk for Social Good: Yahya's Courageous Career and Leadership Decisions; Farah Yasmine Shakir, Petra Kipfelsberger, Anneloes M.L. Raes and Yih-Teen LeeSECTION III: FORGIVENESS 8. Forgiveness; Steven L. Smith 9. Leadership in Multicultural Environments: A Courageous Case of Forgiveness for South Africa; Adri Drotskie and Rica Viljoen 10. Forgiveness: On The Journey to Reconciliation; Linda Pallone 11. Fostering Forgiveness in a Conflict-Affected Country; Susan Ryan SECTION IV: MENTAL FITNESS 12. Leading with Mental Fitness; Paula Robinson13. Mental Health in the Workplace: A Case Study for Collective Responsibility; Jacqueline H. Stephenson 14. Developing Restful Awareness: Lessons in Energizing Individuals and Teams from the Micro-practices of a Yoga Class; Anne Messervy15. Mental Fitness at Knox Grammar School; Steve Zolezzi 16. The Introduction of Well-Being into the Curriculum of an Executive MBA Program: The Sydney Business School a Reflective Case Study; Dr. Lee E. J. Styger and Lauren RichardsonSECTION V: POSITIVE ENERGY 17. Experiencing Human Energy as a Catalyst for Developing Leadership Capacity; Bernd Vogel 18. Ella's Kitchen: Strategic Positive Leadership with Purpose and Value-Driven Collective Energy; Amal Ahmadi and Bernd Vogel 19. Transforming Negative Energy Into Positive Energy Through Intercultural Communication Exercises; Daniel Velasco 20. Igniting Leadership: Ritual and Interaction within the AI Summit; Janis Bragan Balda, Mary Saunders Bulan, and William DesJenniferis SECTION VI: HUMAN VALUES 21. Navigating the Terrain of Positive Organizing: An Engagement with Values; Ken Otter22. Putting Values to Work at KKT: Nourishment for a Positive Leadership Culture; Ken Otter, Tone S. Ringstad and Sigbjørn Smeland23. Words for Worlds: Developing Leaders through Values and Narrative Processes at the University of Alberta; Victor Shewchuk, Christine Cavanaugh Simmons and Marcy Strong 24. "This Above All: To Thine Own Self Be True"; Emma Watton and Scott Lichtenstein

Written by business scholars and others from around the world, the 24 chapters presented here explore aspects that create positive conditions to help expand the individual, relational, and collective repertoire of leadership in organizations: an emergent mindset, courage, forgiveness, mental fitness, positive energy, and human values. Each section contains a chapter on the topic, followed by case studies of individuals like Bruno Cucinelli and Yahya Khan; organizations like Starbucks, Ella’s Kitchen, and KKT; and settings like South Africa, a yoga class, a grammar school, and universities.