Just a reminder that the March Book Club Meetup is this Tuesday at Dudley’s Book Shop on Minnesota. We’ll be talking about Chris Anderson’s Free: The Future of a Radical Price. We’ve got “video cheats” and a link to reader reviews up so you can attend and intelligently participate without actually reading the book too.
At the February meetup, we decided to try to put two books in the queue for discussion so we’ll need to come up with two titles at this March meetup. Come with a few ideas about books you’d like to talk about.
Here’s a topic I’d like to discuss at some point this year… The Positivity/Negativity Ratio significant for High Performance Teams.
It seems a handful of academics have focused their attention on the dynamics of teams that perform at various levels of “flourishing.” Incredibly enough, consensus is emerging about the P/N Ratio required for “human flourishing” in business teams, marriages, and individuals.
The Losada Line defines that minimum level of Positivity and Connectivity that distinguishes teams and people able to reach a complex understanding of others and the objectives/tasks before them. Oh, and the Losada line value is equal to 2.9013 for those of us keeping track to 4 decimal points.
And apparently conscious and deliberate effort to improve Team Positivity and Connectivity works even in “explosive contexts”. Please excuse the pun. 
I imagine a Book Club Meetup discussion could help to get us familiar with this relatively new academic literature and music(?) on teaming.
Steve, some suggestions from previous meetings:
# The Purple Cow, by Seth Gordon
# The Long Tail, by Chris Anderson
# Getting to Plan B, by Randy Komisar