Positive Intelligence

Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential and How You Can Achieve Yours

By: Shirzad Chamine

Narrated by: Shirzad Chamine

Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins

Publisher's summary

In his popular Stanford University lectures, Shirzad Chamine reveals how to achieve one's true potential for both professional success and personal fulfillment. His groundbreaking research exposes ten well-disguised mental Saboteurs. Nearly 95 percent of the executives in his Stanford lectures conclude that these Saboteurs cause "significant harm" to achieving their full potential. With Positive Intelligence, you can learn the secret to defeating these internal foes. Positive Intelligence (PQ) measures the percentage of time your mind is serving you as opposed to sabotaging you. While your IQ and EQ (emotional intelligence) contribute to your maximum potential, it is your PQ that determines how much of that potential you actually achieve. The great news is that you can improve your PQ significantly in as little as 21 days. With higher PQ, teams and professionals ranging from leaders to salespeople perform 30-35 percent better on average. Importantly, they also report being far happier and less stressed. The breakthrough tools and techniques in this book have been refined over years of coaching hundreds of CEOs and their executive teams. Shirzad tells many of their remarkable stories, showing you how you too can take concrete steps to unleash the vast, untapped powers of your mind.

Discover how to:

• Identify and conquer your top mental Saboteurs. Common Saboteurs include the Judge, Controller, Victim, Avoider, and Pleaser.
• Measure the Positive Intelligence score (PQ) for yourself or your team--see how close you come to the critical tipping point required for peak performance.
• Increase PQ dramatically in as little as 21 days.
• Develop new brain "muscles," and access 5 untapped powers with energizing mental "power games."
• Apply PQ tools and techniques to increase both performance and fulfillment.
• Applications include team building, mastering workload, working with "difficult" people, improving work/life balance, reducing stress, and selling and persuading.

New York Times bestselling author Shirzad Chamine is Chairman of CTI, the largest coach-training organization in the world. CTI has trained coaches and managers in most of the Fortune 500 companies, as well as faculty at Stanford and Yale business schools. A preeminent C-suite advisor, Shirzad has coached hundreds of CEOs and their executive teams. Prior to running CTI, he was the CEO of an enterprise software company. His background includes PhD studies in neuroscience in addition to a BA in psychology, an MS in electrical engineering, and an MBA from Stanford, where he lectures.

©2012 Shirzad Chamine (P)2012 Gildan Media, LLC

Critic reviews

“Shirzad delivers a simple, doable, groundbreaking set of exercises that can help you develop your ‘performance’ muscles, increase your PQ score, and gain access to previously untapped mental resources. Working out was never so rewarding or so much fun! So if you’re ready to get even better, get this audiobook—today.” (Marshall Goldsmith, New York Times best-selling author of Mojo and What Got You Here Won't Get You There)

“ Positive Intelligence can change your life and transform your business. A real game-changer.” (James D. White, Chairman and CEO, Jamba Juice)

So insightful- great stories, calmly told

I hesitate to use these words, but this book truly is perspective changing. The framework offers us the simple operating system of PQ, understanding the way (& perhaps even the why) we & others react, and offers the tools to make our decisions from a sage place. Wisdom becomes possible, and it is powerful.

Great way to enhance brain function…

Really enjoyed the format and the explanations given in this book. Hyper focused on good information.

Incredible book

Provided the tools and examples I needed to understand my mind better. Recommend it for leaders.

A stand out book about peak performance and the mind

Mind blowing information about our left brain and right brain functions, and how to access peak performance by raising our positive intelligence quotient. We learn about our saboteur modes (left brain survival) and our inner sage mode (right brain thriving), and how to access a life lived in the sage mode.

Practical advice

I liked not only the concept of positive intelligence, but also practical advices by the author how to mitigate saboteurs and nurture sages.

valuable and understandable insights on better liv

down to earth, real stuff. connects many dots. supports those of us committed to developing ourselves.

Very Insightful

I have already benefited from the practical application off the exercises in this book. it has made a major impact on my life.

A different approach to leadership

Really enjoyed this one. It's a little slow to listen to initially but gets interesting very quickly. Understanding the voices and thoughts in my mind and recognizing them as not actually helping was a huge eye opener. Highly recommend for business and personal life!

The science behind common phrases

I found this book extremely helpful in understanding myself better. I’ve always heard of common phrases like “be positive, look on the bright side, be mindful of the energy you give off, etc”All of these things are true but I didn’t understand why I kept returning to self doubt, fear, etc., and now I understand that’s it my saboteurs! It’s been really helpful to understand the 10 common saboteurs and how they play a role in my behavior. I’m also aware of my Sage and I’m focused on strengthening that! Thank you for explaining this and providing real examples.

Life-changing Potential

The concepts in this book have the potential to change lives. Read and apply daily!