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I was recommended this book by my therapist and it was pretty good. Some aspects are more applicable to me than others so there was that. By the end, it was kind of getting repetitive. Overall, it was interesting.
hopeful
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
To anyone stuck in life and realized that it’s not the people or the circumstances preventing them from moving forward but it’s their own mind or thought.. yet can’t figure out how to handle it?
Then this book is for you!
Also I suggest reading it while you’re with Shirzad in the course too! As the course has some little extra techniques not available in the book!
You will Thank me :D
Then this book is for you!
Also I suggest reading it while you’re with Shirzad in the course too! As the course has some little extra techniques not available in the book!
You will Thank me :D
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Shirzad Chamine's "Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential and How You Can Achieve Yours" is an amazing resource. It's an examination of what Chamine calls PQ or positive intelligence quotient. Chamine's arguments on PQ are that it's a measurement of how productive your mind can be based on its self-affirming factors, and that by tapping into the wells of PQ, examining what strengthens it and lessening others that work against it, we can be more successful in our personal and business lives.
I found the ground that Chamine tackles with respect to factors that deteriorate PQ, as well as build up the measure very helpful. I'm surprised by how much I learned about myself thinking about my own PQ. There are ten factors that work against PQ, and the book outlines them very well. The factor that promotes PQ is what this book calls "The Sage" - where the benefits of that are (quoted):
*to Explore with great curiosity and an open mind;
*to Empathize with yourself and others and bring compassion and understanding to any situation;
*to Innovate and create new perspectives and outside-the-box solutions;
*to Navigate and choose a path that best aligns with your deeper underlying values and mission;
*to Activate and take decisive action without the distress, interference, or distractions [of the things that sabotage PQ]
Strategies for the promotion of PQ are in line of weakening the factors that work against PQ, strengthening "the Sage", and working the muscles as a functioning part of the PQ brain. Chamine's instructions and expansions on the matter are very clear cut and easy to understand. It's also a valuable tool to on how to improve relationships, tackle personal limitations and challenges, and be able to examine professional goals among individuals and teams/groups. I appreciated also the author's personal experiences and professional consultations peppered as examples and case studies in the text.
I would highly recommend this book as a resource, and I know it's one I'll return to for quite some time.
Overall score: 5/5
Note: I received this as an ARC from NetGalley, from the publisher Greenleaf Book Group.
I found the ground that Chamine tackles with respect to factors that deteriorate PQ, as well as build up the measure very helpful. I'm surprised by how much I learned about myself thinking about my own PQ. There are ten factors that work against PQ, and the book outlines them very well. The factor that promotes PQ is what this book calls "The Sage" - where the benefits of that are (quoted):
*to Explore with great curiosity and an open mind;
*to Empathize with yourself and others and bring compassion and understanding to any situation;
*to Innovate and create new perspectives and outside-the-box solutions;
*to Navigate and choose a path that best aligns with your deeper underlying values and mission;
*to Activate and take decisive action without the distress, interference, or distractions [of the things that sabotage PQ]
Strategies for the promotion of PQ are in line of weakening the factors that work against PQ, strengthening "the Sage", and working the muscles as a functioning part of the PQ brain. Chamine's instructions and expansions on the matter are very clear cut and easy to understand. It's also a valuable tool to on how to improve relationships, tackle personal limitations and challenges, and be able to examine professional goals among individuals and teams/groups. I appreciated also the author's personal experiences and professional consultations peppered as examples and case studies in the text.
I would highly recommend this book as a resource, and I know it's one I'll return to for quite some time.
Overall score: 5/5
Note: I received this as an ARC from NetGalley, from the publisher Greenleaf Book Group.
hopeful
informative
fast-paced
It took me more than usual to read this book. I wanted to absorb as much as I could from it, and went through it at a slower pace than usual. I read it while working through Shirzad’s 7 week Positive Intelligence program. I found that the essence of the book is contained in the program and I would recommend reading it all thoroughly nonetheless (the program requieres reading the first 8 chapters). Some other parts of the book are naturally not contained in his program with so much detail and are also worth reading. I found some intertwined notions btwn Positive Intelligence, the Enneagram and the Co-Active coaching model. Shirzad makes beautiful acknowledgments to CTI (The Coaching Training Institute)’s founders and faculty and to Enneagram gurus, among others. I also found some similarities with group coaching tools, such as the ones developed by Marita Fridjhon and Faith Fuller (Center of Right Relationship) in the ORSC (Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching) curricula. For example, Positive Intelligence’s ‘Exploration Power Game of Fascinated Anthropologist’ reminded me of ORSC’s ‘Lands Work’. Inspiration might have come from the same source and yet the tools are pretty different. I enjoyed very much this book as I also loved Shrizad’s course, as much as I adored my CTI, my ORSC and Enneagram trainings. They have all contributed to my current more Sage biased leading existence.
I learned new terminology for ways I was thinking and feeling - but ultimately this is a corporate-washing of meditation and mindfulness. If you already practice those beliefs, this is one to skip. If those terms make you roll your eyes, this is more tailored to you.
This was not really a book I would go out of my way to recommend. There was some great "one liners" worth highlighting, but other than that, it was pretty mediocre overall. I think the author was trying a little too hard on this one.