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Positive approach to leadership (PAL) implications for today's organizations.
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The article proposes a positive approach to leadership (PAL) to help today's organizational leaders rise to the occasion of the turbulent post-9/11 environment. Drawing from positive psychology and Luthans' recently proposed positive organizational behavior (POB), the PAL criteria meeting RICH components of Realistic Optimism, Emotional Intelligence, Confidence, and Hope are defined and analyzed. Particular attention is given to the implications that each of the RICH components of PAL have for organizational leadership development and effective application.
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The millennium celebration was to be a symbolic turning point for the new economy and a reinvigorated time of peace and goodwill to everyone. The actual event on January 1, 2000 went unexpectedly smooth, but then the dark clouds of economic uncertainty began to quickly form. The bursting of the dot-com bubble about a year later not only shocked the unrealistic e-business sector, but also showed just how fragile the booming new global economy really was. Then, all of a sudden the dark clouds of uncertainty brought on by the declining economy became thunder and lightening on September 11, 2001. The horrific terrorist attack on America and its continuing aftermath and devastation have sounded the alarm for leadership at all levels and institutions not only in America, but within the entire global community.
Post-9/11, most of the news has been dominated by geopolitical, military, religious, and even humanitarian events and concerns. Few would question that these are indeed the topics most important in a world that most of us agree will never be the same. However, we would also argue that the uncertainty and threat is not just to life itself and our way of life, but also to our economy and the psychology of organizational participants. A real moment of truth has arrived for organizational leaders at all levels. The time has come for organizational leaders to rise to the occasion, meet today's and the foreseeable future economic and psychological challenges with undaunted courage and compassion, and, we propose, a new positive approach to leadership, or what we simply call PAL.
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