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ENERGY
10 Rules
to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team
with Positive Energy
JON GORDON
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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ENERGY
10 Rules
to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team
with Positive Energy
JON GORDON
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Published simultaneously in Canada.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Gordon, Jon, 1971–
The energy bus : 10 rules to fuel your life, work, and team with positive energy / Jon Gordon.
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-10028-8 (cloth)
1. Teams in the workplace—Management.
2. Employee motivation.
Motivation (Psychology)
I. Title.
HD66.G665
2007
650.1—dc22
2006024223
Printed in the United States of America.
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To my mother, Nancy Gordon Nicolosi
Your strength and courage in the face of cancer will
always inspire me. I love you from the depths of my heart.
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Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Author’s Note
xiii
Introduction
xvii
Flat Tire
Good News and Bad News
The Long Walk Home
George Wakes Up
No Joy on the Bus
The Rules
You’re the Driver
It’s All About Energy
George Shares His Vision
Focus
The Power of Positive Energy
George Takes a Walk
One Great Golf Shot Theory
Bus Tickets
A Very Long Weekend
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Who’s on the Bus
The Enemy Is Negativity
No Energy Vampires on the Bus
The Ultimate Rule of Positive Energy
George Takes Control of His Bus
George Has a Dream
Better Today than Yesterday
Feeling Good
Lead with Heart
Chief Energy Officer
Love Your Passengers
Love Rules
Fear and Trust
The Next Day
The Team Gets Inspired
Game Day
The Presentation
It’s More Fun on the Bus
The Energy Bus Action Plan
Bus Tickets
Share the Energy! Get Your Team on the Bus!!
Index
Contents
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Foreword
In many of my seminars I begin by asking people to stand up and do two things. First, I ask them to greet other people as if they are unimportant. After an initial chuckle or two, there’s a dull hum as everyone walks around trying to ignore each other. Then I stop them and ask them to continue to greet people, but this time, to do it as if the people they are greeting are long-lost friends they’re glad to see. The room erupts with laughter and the volume rises as people run around, smiling, hugging, and chatting with each other.
When the people in the audience sit down, I ask them, “Why do you think I had you do those two things—besides the fact that I’m from California?”
After the audience laughs, I tell them that the answer is positive energy. “To run a successful organization,” I say, “you must learn to manage people’s energy, including your own. When was there more energy in the room—during the first activity or the second?”
Of course, everyone shouts out, “The second!”
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“What did I do to change the energy in the room?” I ask. Then I answer: “All I did was change your focus from a negative thought to a positive thought, and the energy of the room increased tenfold.”
What I just described to you is why I’m excited about Jon Gordon and The Energy Bus. Every morning you have a choice. Are you going to be a positive thinker or a negative thinker? Positive thinking will energize you.
When you get to work, you have another choice. You can catch people doing things right, or you can catch them doing things wrong. Guess which of those two activities energizes people more?
If you want to fuel your family, your career, your team, and your organization with spirit, read this book.
Детали
- Год издания
- 2012
- Format
- epub