Hard Optimism: How to Succeed in a World Where Positive Wins (Hardcover)

A groundbreaking approach to developing the attitude of a winner-one that incorporates resilience, energy, innovation, and hope company-wide

For more than 30 years, Price Pritchett has shaped management perspectives around the globe. Hard Optimism is the most in-depth, comprehensive overview of his methodology, examining how the thoughts, feelings, and attitudes of an organization and its people determine both day-to-day performance and future growth. Pritchett gives you a disciplined way to think, act, and support a culture that promotes the ability to seize opportunities, rather than seeing only obstacles.

Hard Optimism offers 12 practices to develop this discipline and strengthen any company against its competition; generate better relationships with suppliers, customers, and partners; and create a high-performing organization.

HARD OPTIMISM HELPS EVERY ORGANIZATION:

STRENGTHEN its position against the competition

GENERATE better relationships with suppliers

CREATE more powerful connections with customers and partners

ESTABLISH high performance that meets uncertainty, opportunity, and change

You can. All it takes is Hard Optimism.

Price Pritchett, one of the world's most renowned thought leaders on
corporate culture and organizational change, presents a groundbreaking
program for developing the positive mental practices that will not only
improve your performance on the job, but enhance the quality of every part
of your life. Drawing upon research from the influential field of positive
psychology, Pritchett shows you how to adopt hard optimism-a
forward-thinking mindset that incorporates resilience, energy, innovation,
and hope into the way you approach every task.

Hard Optimism gives you 12 powerful, proven practices for reducing negative
thinking and adopting the attitude of a winner-the keys to seizing
opportunity, overcoming obstacles, and wielding a positive influence on the
people around you.

With the action steps outlined in Hard Optimism, you'll discover how to:

Recognize and dispute pessimistic thoughts
Gain an edge by adopting an optimistic style to interpret events, both good
and bad
Use positive reappraisal to handle problems and disappointments
Know how and when to use negative thinking to your advantage
Play to your signature strengths
Practice gratitude and forgiveness to fight off negativity
By taking a hard look at reality rather than sugarcoating it, by managing
your thought processes to improve hard results, you'll master hard optimism
and meet the challenges in every area of your career and your life.

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