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ffirs.qxd 12/19/06 2:49 PM Page i THE ENERGY BUS 10 Rules Fuel Your Life, Work, Team to and Positive Energy with JON GORDON John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ffirs.qxd 12/19/06 2:49 PM Page iv ffirs.qxd 12/19/06 2:49 PM Page i THE ENERGY BUS 10 Rules Fuel Your Life, Work, Team to and Positive Energy with JON GORDON John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ffirs.qxd 12/19/06 2:49 PM Page ii Copyright © 2007 by Jon Gordon. All rights reserved. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. Published simultaneously in Canada. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 646-8600, or on the web at www.copyright.com. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, (201) 748-6011, fax (201) 748-6008, or online at http://www.wiley.com/go/permissions. 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For general information on our other products and services or for technical support, please contact our Customer Care Department within the United States at (800) 762-2974, outside the United States at (317) 572-3993 or fax (317) 572-4002. Wiley also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. For more information about Wiley products, visit our web site at www.wiley.com. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Gordon, Jon, 1971– The energy bus : 10 rules to fuel your life, work, and team with positive energy / Jon Gordon. p. cm. ISBN-13: 978-0-470-10028-8 (cloth) 1. Teams in the workplace—Management. 2. Employee motivation. 3. Motivation (Psychology) I. Title. HD66.G665 2007 650.1—dc22 2006024223 Printed in the United States of America. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ffirs.qxd 12/19/06 2:49 PM Page iii To my mother, Nancy Gordon Nicolosi Your strength and courage in the face of cancer will always inspire me. I love you from the depths of my heart. ffirs.qxd 12/19/06 2:49 PM Page iv ftoc.qxd 12/19/06 2:49 PM Page v Contents Foreword vii Acknowledgments ix Author’s Note xiii Introduction xvii 1 Flat Tire 1 2 Good News and Bad News 9 3 The Long Walk Home 11 4 George Wakes Up 15 5 No Joy on the Bus 17 6 The Rules 19 7 You’re the Driver 25 8 It’s All About Energy 33 9 George Shares His Vision 37 10 Focus 41 11 The Power of Positive Energy 45 12 George Takes a Walk 51 13 One Great Golf Shot Theory 53 14 Bus Tickets 55 15 A Very Long Weekend 61 v ftoc.qxd 12/19/06 2:49 PM Page vi 16 Who’s on the Bus 63 17 The Enemy Is Negativity 67 18 No Energy Vampires on the Bus 73 19 The Ultimate Rule of Positive Energy 77 20 George Takes Control of His Bus 81 21 George Has a Dream 89 22 Better Today than Yesterday 91 23 Feeling Good 95 24 Lead with Heart 99 25 Chief Energy Officer 103 26 Love Your Passengers 113 27 Love Rules 121 28 Fear and Trust 125 29 The Next Day 129 30 The Team Gets Inspired 135 31 Game Day 139 32 The Presentation 147 33 Joy 151 34 It’s More Fun on the Bus 155 The Energy Bus Action Plan 159 Bus Tickets 165 Share the Energy! Get Your Team on the Bus!! 166 Index 167 vi Contents flast.qxd 12/19/06 2:50 PM Page vii Foreword I n many of my seminars I begin by asking people to stand up and do two things. First, I ask them to greet other people as if they are unimportant. After an initial chuckle or two, there’s a dull hum as everyone walks around trying to ignore each other. Then I stop them and ask them to continue to greet people, but this time, to do it as if the people they are greeting are long-lost friends they’re glad to see. The room erupts with laughter and the volume rises as people run around, smiling, hugging, and chatting with each other. When the people in the audience sit down, I ask them, “Why do you think I had you do those two things—besides the fact that I’m from California?” After the audience laughs, I tell them that the answer is positive energy. “To run a successful organization,” I say, “you must learn to manage people’s energy, includ- ing your own. When was there more energy in the room—during the first activity or the second?” Of course, everyone shouts out, “The second!” vii

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