Positive Leadership, 2nd Edition

By Kim Cameron and Marc Lavine

Making the Impossible Possible

Leading Extraordinary Performance—the Rocky Flats Story

It was initially projected that cleaning up Rocky Flats, the most contaminated nuclear weapons plant in the United States and the site of rampant worker unrest, would take seventy years and $36 billion. But the project was completed sixty years ahead of schedule and $30 billion under budget. Kim Cameron and Marc Lavine discovered that the Rocky Flats leaders used a distinctive “abundance approach,” identifying and building on sources of strength, resilience, and vitality rather than simply solving problems and overcoming difficulties. ...