Five Keys to Flourishing in Trying Times

Abstract

In this article I rely on two decades of empirical research on organizations that have faced difficult economic situations but which have achieved levels of success that are unexpected and exceptional. Carefully examining these organizations has helped uncover some atypical leadership strategies that can serve as guidelines to leaders facing tying times. These strategies are atypical in that they supplement the oft-prescribed leadership truisms that appear in the popular press, and they are less often recognized by leaders facing trying times. These strategies are based on the concept of positive, and they have emerged from the newly developing field of Positive Organizational Scholarship.