Leading with Gratitude

I love, love, love this book! You will not only read but mark up and send to your friends. Alan Mulally, retired CEO of The Ford Motor Company Leading with Gratitude is a wonderful gift for leaders, those who aspire to lead, and anyone who wants to bring more joy and meaning into their lives. Dr. Jim Yong Kim, 17th President of Dartmouth College & 12th President of the World Bank Group Seeing and appreciating excellence is foundational in running a great team, and yet so few leaders have mastered this seemingly simple skill. A powerful, poignant roadmap that can lead you and your team to extraordinary results. Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School Professor & author of The Fearless Organization and Teaming Amazing! Ideas that will have a remarkable and immediate impact on your ability to lead other people. Marshall Goldsmith, author of What Got You Here Wont Get You There Carefully researched, witty, and packed with a hundred practical tips, Leading with Gratitude is a blueprint to developing your soft skills (from) Gostick and Elton, the undisputed thought leaders in building All In cultures. Whitney Johnson, CEO of WLJ Advisors & author of Disrupt Yourself and Build an A Team In this timely book, Gostick and Elton show how the power of gratitude can supercharge results and transform organizations. Henry Timms, President of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and co-author New Power Another instant classic by Gostick and Elton. Learning how to Lead with Gratitude is a core business competency and should be required reading for all people leaders. An exceptionally inspired workforce will respond in kind. David Kasiarz, Executive Vice President, Global Total Rewards and Medical American Express This is THE book people will be talking about this year. A powerful and profound method to inspire people to rally to your cause and achieve outstanding long-term results. Jam-packed with ideas and tips to engage the people in your care, this book should be in every leaders library. Lance Trenary, President & CEO, Golden Corral Corporation Rooted in profound theory; nurtured by rigorous research; and illustrated by moving stories, Gostick and Elton turn the ideal of gratitude into a vibrant, flourishing, and renewing lifestyle. Their remarkable work will inspire and improve anyone from senior leader to front line employee in any setting where we work, live, play, and worship. Dave Ulrich, Rensis Likert Professor, School of Business, University of Michigan Partner, The RBL Group I love how this book uses hard-data to explain that the soft-stuff that makes all the difference for great leaders. Then, through benchmarking great leaders, provides relevant and actionable ideas for how to make gratitude a sustainable force for good. As youll see, authentic gratitude can change lives and change companies. Mark A. Beck, CEO, B-Square Precision Group Research has clearly shown that the best leaders positively engage with their people consistently. Leading with Gratitude hits at the essence and continued rebirth of what it is to be a leader. If you want sustained performance, hire leaders who possess power skills like gratitude. The research in this book shows that people drive performance ... leaders who understand thisand routinely show appreciation and gratitude for work and effortwill drive even more business! Todd Billingsley, Director of Business & Leadership Development, Boehringer Ingelheim Gostick and Elton have captured the extraordinary essence of a driving life force to grow every sustainable organization. This book inspires, provokes, encourages and serves as a launching pad for that next level of performance of your team,

Adrian Gostick is the author of such books as The Carrot Principle, Leading with Gratitude, and All In, which have been New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers. His works have been translated into more than thirty languages and have sold 1.5 million copies around the world. He has appeared on NBCs Today show and been quoted in the Economist, Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, and Fortune; and he is a leadership strategy contributor to Forbes. Gostick is the cofounder of the motivation assessment firm FindMojo.com. He is ranked among the Top 10 Global Gurus in Leadership and is ranked the number 3 Organizational Culture expert in the world. Learn more at adriangostick.com. Chester Eltons work is supported by research with more than one million working adults. He has been called the apostle of appreciation by Canadas Globe and Mail, creative and refreshing by the New York Times, and a must read for modern managers by CNN. Elton is coauthor of The Carrot Principle, Leading with Gratitude, and All In, and has been quoted in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Fast Company. A sought-after lecturer around the world, he is ranked in the Top 10 Global Gurus in Leadership and is ranked the number 2 Organizational Culture expert in the world. He is cofounder of FindMojo.com, and 700,000 people follow his work on LinkedIn. Learn more at chesterelton.com.