This One Leadership Quality Will Make or Break You

How to Focus | strategic learning Positive Intelligence | leadership 3.0 Positive Intelligence Artwork: Yue Minjun, Laughing Painter, 2003, oil on canvas, 70 x 50 cm In July 2010 Burt’s Bees, a personal-care products company, was undergoing enormous change as it began a global expansion into 19 new countries. In this kind of high-pressure situation, many leaders pester their deputies with frequent meetings or flood their in-boxes with urgent demands. In doing so, managers jack up everyone’s anxiety level, which activates the portion of the brain that processes threats—the amygdala—and steals resources from the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for effective problem solving. Burt’s Bees’s then-CEO, John Replogle, took a different tack. That outcome shouldn’t surprise us. In fact, it works the other way around: People who cultivate a positive mind-set perform better in the face of challenge. Another common misconception is that our genetics, our environment, or a combination of the two determines how happy we are. Develop New Habits

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