Overview

Lead your company and yourself to greater success by changing how you think about other people. Most leaders strive for success by focusing on strategies, goals, and results-but the biggest breakthroughs come when you cultivate a positive mindset combined with real accountability. An award-winning professor of leadership at Trinity University in Texas, Amer Kaissi reveals how choosing to believe others are acting with positive intentions can have remarkable benefits for teams, organizations-and yourself. Drawing on extensive research and compelling stories from his own life and the experiences of leaders he works with, Kaissi shows that the interaction of two factors determines the quality of our relationships: what we assume about other people's intentions and how much accountability we hold others and ourselves to. When we default to suspicion or avoid responsibility, we fuel toxic cycles that erode trust, engagement, and performance. But when we assume positive intent while practicing real accountability, we unlock a cycle of trust that strengthens relationships, teams, and organizations. Kaissi offers a disciplined, evidence-based method to make this mindset shift, guiding readers through eleven brisk chapters that combine science and storytelling within an actionable framework. With a road map for cultivating empathy, humility, forgiveness, and reality testing, The Positive Intent Mindset helps leaders replace fear, insecurity, and self-protection with realistic optimism and clarity. The payoff is enormous: a workplace that attracts and keeps top talent, builds loyal clients, and sustains long-term success. Amer Kaissi's evidence-based approach to human relationships gives managers, executives, and other business leaders the skills to rewire their assumptions and create cultures of accountable positivity. The Positive Intent Mindset is not just a book about leadership-it's a guide to building a more fulfilling, connected, and successful life.

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""This book will change how you interpret others-and transform how you lead. In a world quick to assume the worst, this book offers the powerful-and refreshingly doable-alternative of choosing curiosity, assuming good intent, and leading with empathy."" Dorie Clark, executive education faculty at Columbia Business School, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Long Game ""The Positive Intent Mindset shows leaders how to build trust and transform relationships by learning to assume the best in others without compromising accountability. Especially about how to take a pause and use our more rational brains to increase our empathy for others and find better solutions. Through thorough research, compelling stories, and practical insights, Amer shows how choosing a mindset of realistic optimism, empathy and humility can help build stronger teams and lead to impactful results."" Maria Ross, TEDx speaker, author of The Empathy Edge and The Empathy Dilemma ""The Positive Intent Mindset shows that assuming good intent is far from naïveté-it's a courageous, data-driven choice with remarkable benefits. It's not just the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do."" Dr. Stephen Trzeciak and Dr. Anthony Mazzarelli, bestselling authors of Compassionomics and The Wonder Drug

Author Information

Amer Kaissi is an award-winning professor of leadership at Trinity University in Texas and the author of five books, including Humbitious: The Power of Low-Ego & High-Drive Leadership. He is an executive coach who works with high-performing leaders and teams. Kaissi is also a professional speaker, speaking on leadership topics at hundreds of professional conferences and organizations all over the world, such as Disney, Kaiser Permanente, and Warner Bros. He grew up in Beirut, Lebanon, and is an avid football (soccer) fan. He lives with his wife in San Antonio, Texas, and has two adult children in college.

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