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My friend Jack Ricchiuto and I shared a glass of wine over the completion of his fourth book, Appreciative Leadership. It's available in pdf form on his website. One of the things I like about AL is the manifesto which includes:

2. We want to do business in a way that supports abundance rather than scarcity. 4. We want to base our performance on what we appreciate rather than what we fear 7. We want to trust in our happiness as a more sustainable motivator than our unhappiness. 8. We want to spend more time measuring that which we want to increase than what we want to decrease. 11. We want appreciative leaders who seek the optimum rather than maximum or minumum 12. We want to respect the profound differences between leadership and management in the growth of an organization. 14. We want to fill leadership positions with people who have leadership capabilities. 19. We want to understand our "weaknesses" as strengths used at the wrong time 27. We want to help everyone understand that they already have what it takes to succeed. 28. We want to understand that success is about alignment. 36. We want organizations designed to allow everyone to share in networks of leadership. 45. We want leaders who are more passionate about collaboration than hierarchy. 53. We want organizations known for creating entrepreneurs. 57. We want to create learning organizations.

Do these ideas resonnate with you? If they do, please consider signing the manifesto and supporting the further publication with a donation.