Positive Intelligence

Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential and How You Can Achieve Yours

by Shirzad Chamine

Number of pages: 224

Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press

BBB Library: Personal Success

ISBN: 9781608322787



About the Author

Shirzad Chamine is Chairman of CTI, the largest coach-training organization in the world. CTI has trained coaches and managers in most of the Fortune 500 companies, as well as faculty at Stanford and Yale business schools. A preeminent C-suite advisor, Shirzad has coached hundreds of CEOs and their executive teams. Prior to running CTI, he was the CEO of an enterprise software company. His background includes PhD studies in neuroscience in addition to a BA in psychology, an MS in electrical engineering, and an MBA from Stanford.

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Editorial Review

Positive intelligence provides answers to most of our pressing questions: Why do most dieters succumb to yo-yo dieting?  Why is our increased happiness so fleeting after we achieve what we thought would bring lasting happiness?  Why do new leadership skills acquired in workshops soon give way to old habits? Why do expensive team-building retreats only result in temporary blips in team cohesion and performance?  What kind of torture and punishment is this!  Indeed we’re being tortured and punished, but this torture is “”self-inflicted.” Your mind is your best friend, but it’s also your worst enemy.  Positive Intelligence measures the relative strength of these two modes of your mind. High Positive Intelligence means your mind acts as your friend far more than as your enemy. Low Positive Intelligence is the reverse. Positive Intelligence is therefore an indication of the control you have over your own mind and how well your mind acts in your best interest. It should be relatively easy to see how your level of Positive Intelligence determines how much of your true potential you actually achieve.

Book Reviews

"In his popular Stanford University lectures, Shirzad Chamine reveals how to achieve one’s true potential for both professional success and personal fulfillment." - Barnes and Noble

"Aa book that really opens new doors for the reader and enables you take your life to the next level." - Montyrainey

"Positive Intelligencefalls into an interesting intersection between self-help books and business strategy books" - David G. Shwartz

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Positive intelligence provides answers to most of our pressing questions.

Your mind is your best friend, but it’s also your worst enemy.

High Positive Intelligence means your mind acts as your friend far more than as your enemy. Low Positive Intelligence is the reverse.

Positive Intelligence is therefore an indication of the control you have over your own mind and how well your mind acts in your best interest.

Two dimensions of our personality in particular play a part in deciding which Saboteurs we develop.