Positively Energizing Leadership

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YEAH, BUTS: OBJECTIONS AND RESPONSES

Despite evidence showing that positive energy is heliotropic, that positively energizing leadership improves organizations, and that the application of positive principles appears to affect individual employees and bottom-line performance for the better, skeptics still persist. Some critics have disparaged a positive focus as being unrealistic, naive, and narrow-minded.¹ This is certainly understandable in light of the current environment of racial injustice, economic devastation, and loss of life. When people are depressed, in mourning, or experiencing emotional pain, mandating that everyone think happy thoughts and be cheerful is mockery. In these cases, touting positive relational energy can be seen ...