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    Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential AND HOW YOU CAN ACHIEVE YOURS
    Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential AND HOW YOU CAN ACHIEVE YOURS
    Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential AND HOW YOU CAN ACHIEVE YOURS
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    Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential AND HOW YOU CAN ACHIEVE YOURS

    Written by Shirzad Chamine

    Narrated by Shirzad Chamine

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    About this audiobook

    In his popular Stanford University lectures, Shirzad Chamine reveals how to achieve one's true potential for both professional success and personal fulfillment. His groundbreaking research exposes ten well-disguised mental Saboteurs. Nearly 95 percent of the executives in his Stanford lectures conclude that these Saboteurs cause "significant harm" to achieving their full potential. With Positive Intelligence, you can learn the secret to defeating these internal foes.

    Positive Intelligence (PQ) measures the percentage of time your mind is serving you as opposed to sabotaging you. While your IQ and EQ (emotional intelligence) contribute to your maximum potential, it is your PQ that determines how much of that potential you actually achieve.

    The great news is that you can improve your PQ significantly in as little as 21 days. With higher PQ, teams and professionals ranging from leaders to salespeople perform 30-35 percent better on average. Importantly, they also report being far happier and less stressed.

    The breakthrough tools and techniques in this book have been refined over years of coaching hundreds of CEOs and their executive teams. Shirzad tells many of their remarkable stories, showing you how you too can take concrete steps to unleash the vast, untapped powers of your mind.

    DISCOVER HOW TO:

    * Identify and conquer your top mental Saboteurs. Common Saboteurs include the Judge, Controller, Victim, Avoider, and Pleaser.
    * Measure the Positive Intelligence score (PQ) for yourself or your team--see how close you come to the critical tipping point required for peak performance.
    * Increase PQ dramatically in as little as 21 days.
    * Develop new brain "muscles," and access 5 untapped powers with energizing mental "power games."
    * Apply PQ tools and techniques to increase both performance and fulfillment. Applications include team building, mastering workload, working with "difficult" people, improving work/life balance, reducing stress, and selling and persuading.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAscent Audio
    Release dateApr 9, 2012
    ISBN9781469000572
    Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential AND HOW YOU CAN ACHIEVE YOURS

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    • 1/5
      Great book, but it is not available in audio in the Czech Republic; so one star because it is not possible to hear it. Please, would it be possible to allow it ?
    • 5/5
      This is a true "game changer"‼️ If you are aware of how IFS-internal family systems work, this book will make a lot of sense to you. Or how early childhood experiences, including trauma shape are later life again this book will make sense to you. His writing style is accessible for anyone and the practical examples from the workplace will help you understand how to apply this to your life and those with whom you live and work and play. Enjoy!
    • 3/5
      Interesting and useful but 1. it does not give a great case for the teachings it holds to be 'research based', and 2. it feels like it's written for executives and high performers who are having a hard time. Very few cases and very little discussion in the book are about normal people trying to have better lives (although the methods discussed would probably work to some degree for that too). In particular, there are many problems that normal people have that executives may not have, and these problems are not well considered in the book.

      I listened to the Audiobook and I also did not really enjoy the authors reading and sometimes found it a bit distracting.

      In summary, the content is good but should be better supported (by discussing studies that show particular results to be true) and the book should be framed for a general audience, not just executives who can't cope.
    • 5/5
      If you want to improve your life then read this book. Shirzad shows just how much your brain works against you and gives you the tools to enable it to work for you instead. This is not 'just another psychology book' but a real solution to the emotional hardships of life written by a gentleman who really cares. There is also a website which is very helpful with tools to assist you with your efforts.A must read (including the website) for all those who think there is no help out there or you have to pay through the nose to get it. It will increase your sense of well-being and contentment and elminate the 'I'll be happy when...' thoughts. You'll be happy now!