#177: Jon Gordon—How to Create a Positive Team Culture

Business Made Simple Podcast

StoryBrand.ai

Marketing, Story, Bmsu, Businessmadesimple, Brand, Business, Bms, Storybrand, Entrepreneurship, 474622, Storytelling

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

No one creates success alone. And the most successful teams are positive ones that are continuously strive to get better. But how do you create a positive culture of growth when we’re hard-wired for negativity and competition? On today’s podcast, Jon Gordon, a world leader on executing positivity, shows you the role “positive discontent” can play in creating connection and commitment in your organization. He’s seen it work with his corporate clients like Dell as well as sports teams like the Rams, Clemson, Dodgers, Heat and the Pacers. He says what you believe ultimately determines what you create, and in this episode, he shares practical tips on how to do it.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Building of Story Brand Podcast, where we believe if you confuse you'll lose
0:13.6	noise is the enemy and creating a clear message is the best way to grow your
0:17.1	business I'm your host Donald Miller I'm joined by my co-host
0:19.7	Dr J. J. J.P Peterson. Hi J. J. J.
0:21.6	Hi. I'm just so chipper today.
0:25.0	You are so chipper.
0:26.0	I haven't been this chipper in a long time.
0:28.0	How come? And I'm a naturally fairly chipper guy.
0:30.0	I would agree with that.
0:31.0	Because I interviewed my old friend John Gordon today
0:34.4	who's all about the power of positivity. Yes we can argue maybe the most positive
0:39.0	person in the world like if he's not it's off-brand That guy, he just becomes more impressive to me every year.
0:45.8	And I've been doing a little research, JJ.
0:48.4	I've discovered that actually there's some power
0:51.3	to the idea that we frame our own reality often and I would
0:56.9	argue probably all the time mostly we fictionalize our own reality and what I mean
1:01.7	by that is you think people are against you that really aren't,
1:05.4	you think things are going great when they might not be, you know what I mean?
1:09.6	We're just framing our reality all the time and most of the time we frame it negatively yes and
1:16.0	then we live into a negative false reality and we cause it to come true which is
1:20.5	insane it's insane that that, there's research behind that.
1:24.8	Like that's not just like a regular thing of like, oh yeah, if you think bad things, bad things will happen.
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