The power that positive thinking can have in our lives is today an instilled cultural belief: positive thinking is a good thing and being positive is a good and right way to be. Then again, could positivity have a downside?
For the motivated and ambitious, it is easy to, as they say, “bite off more than you can chew.”
Scott Edinger is the co-author, along with Laurie Sain, of the upcoming book The Hidden Leader, which helps employers learn how to recognize and cultivate talented but under-utilized employees. Here he speaks about one such group of hidden leaders: the tech stars.
Beliefs about power and where it comes from have gone through a transformation in recent history. Popular culture supports the answer that power comes from “the inside”, but do our actions truly reflect that belief?
An act of kindness is perhaps one of the smallest things you can do to make a big difference.
