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Contagious Culture: Show Up, Set the Tone, and Intentionally Create an Organization that Thrives Hardcover – November 16, 2015

by Anese Cavanaugh (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings

GET INSPIRED. GET EXCITED. GET RESULTS.
A proven approach to corporate culture that’s positively contagious

You are about to enter a new era of leadership. With more competiton, more connectedness, and more opportunities than ever before, this exciting new era demands a workplace culture that is collaborative, productive, energized, and contagious. A culture that encourages extraordinary growth and innovation. A culture that starts with you―showing up, setting the tone, and lighting the fire…

This book is about answering that call and setting yourself up for success.

It’s about improving your leadership presence and your impact, not just on others but yourself.

It’s about creating the space you need to share your vision, state your intention, and jump-start your team.

It’s about working yourself over―from the inside out―so you can become the strong, effective, inspiring leader you know you can be.

This is Contagious Culture, a game-changing guide to transforming corporate culture from within, developed by the award-winning creator of The IEP Method to strengthen your “Intentional Energetic Presence.” This is more than a leadership book―this is your future calling.

Award-winning organizational advisor Anese Cavanaugh reveals the secrets of IEP―Intentional Energetic Presence―for transforming your workplace and your life.

The key to any company’s success lies in its culture. This game-changing guide shows you how to shape and revitalize this culture―by setting the tone, engaging the team, and creating a dynamic working environment that encourages growth, productivity, and innovation. It all starts with you…

Using the book’s unique IEP Method, you can:

  • Be the kind of leader people want to follow―not have to follow
  • Craft your intention―and make a real impact
  • Unleash your energy―and watch it spread like wildfire
  • Unlock greater collaboration in your teams―and greater leadership in your people
  • Show up for Others―by setting yourself up for success
  • Bring out the best in everyone―including yourself
  • Create a contagious work culture that people want to catch!

With these proven step-by-step techniques, you can take control of the culture you work in and build a healthier, more functional environment―from the inside out. You’ll find helpful transformative tools and exercises for improving collaborations, opening communications, and implementing changes. You’ll discover the best methods for handling the toughest challenges, whether it’s hiring and firing, strategizing and organizing, busyness or burnout. Best of all, you’ll learn how to enhance your “Intentional Energetic Presence” (IEP) so you’ll always be fully present, purposeful, and prepared to share your vision with infectious energy and enthusiasm.

Contagious Culture is so much more than a leadership guide. It’s a complete cultural mind-shift that’s not only exciting for you and your team―it’s absolutely, positively contagious.

Anese Cavanaugh is an award-winning speaker, advisor, teacher, and thinking partner to some of today’s most innovative organizations and business leaders. In addition to creating and teaching the IEP Method(R), she writes a regular “Showing Up” column on Inc.com and contributes to other publications that include The Huffington Post and CEO.com.

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    320 pages
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  4. Publication date
    November 16, 2015
  5. Dimensions
    6.3 x 1.2 x 9.3 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1259584577
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1259584572
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Anese Cavanaugh (Rocklin, CA) is an award-winning speaker, advisor, teacher, and thinking partner to some of today’s most innovative organizations and business leaders. In addition to creating and teaching the IEP Method, she writes a regular “Showing Up” column on Inc.com and contributes to other publications that include The Huffington Post and CEO.com.

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"My mission in life has been to create joy and purpose in all of my business endeavors. Anese is any company’s secret weapon for achieving profound, permanent results from the inside out."
-- Chip Conley, JDV Hotels founder, Airbnb Head of Global Hospitality & Strategy, and New York Times bestselling author of Emotional Equations

 

"In a book well suited to a world hungry for leadership, Cavanaugh shares compelling advice on how to better lead our organizations, our communities, our families, and often the most challenging of all—ourselves. What a gift."
--Marilyn Carlson Nelson, former chairman and CEO, Carlson

 

"In Contagious Culture, Anese Cavanaugh has identified the elusive secret ingredient of great leadership that hundreds, if not thousands, of other books on the topic have missed. She calls it Intentional Energetic Presence (IEP), and it will change the way you run your business."
—Bo Burlingham, editor-at-large of Inc. magazine and author of Small Giants

"Contagious Culture will give you the power to gracefully change the tone of any conversation and create a positive energetic environment. You will disarm even your most trying antagonist!"
-- Sue Pittacora, Senior Director, Global Consumer and Business Insights, McDonald's Corporation

 

"Anese is innovating the business world with her methods for fostering cultures, inspiring leaders, and helping businesses thrive and grow. She’s created magical methods to help people be self-aware, lead with intention, and impact those around them."
-- Nick Myers, Director, User Experience Design at Fitbit

 

"Learning about energy management from Anese was, without question, one of the best things that's happened to our organization in ages."
Ari Weinzweig, Cofounding Partner and CEO Zingerman’s Community of Businesses, and author of the Zingerman’s Guide to Good Leading Series

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ McGraw Hill
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 16, 2015
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1259584577
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1259584572
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.3 x 1.2 x 9.3 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #774,585 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings

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Anese Cavanaugh is the creator of the IEP Method® (Intentional Energetic Presence®) as well as a leadership and collaboration advisor, strategist, and thinking partner to some of today’s most innovative organizations and business leaders. Through her speaking, writing and creative leadership programs, people learn how to optimize their leadership and presence, bringing their best selves to the table for greater collaboration, impact, and cultural success. Follow her on Twitter @anesecavanaugh.

A dynamic, highly sought after, award-winning speaker who has been called “transformational”, Anese has appeared on stages across the country—Stanford University, the Inc. Women’s Summit, the Education Equals Partnership Annual Conference, Small Giants, InBound and many others—all in service of Showing Up well and creating positive impact in the world. In addition to appearing in publications like HBR, The Huffington Post, CEO.com, and the NY Times, Anese writes regularly for Inc.com in her column “Showing Up”.

Anese is the author of CONTAGIOUS CULTURE: Show Up, Set the Tone, and Create an Organization that Thrives (McGraw-Hill, 2015), IEP SURVIVAL GUIDE: First Aid for Your Presence and THE LEADER YOU WILL BE: An Invitation (2018). Her next book, CONTAGIOUS YOU: Unlock Your Power to Influence, Lead, and Create the Impact You Want (McGraw-Hill) is now available for pre-order on Amazon.

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Customers find this book to be a great read for leaders, describing it as motivating and compelling. Moreover, they appreciate its practical approach, with one customer highlighting its focus on internal self-management. Additionally, the book has a significant impact, with one customer noting it's an important factor in organizational culture. Customers also value the tool collection, with one mentioning it provides more tools in their professional toolkit.

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Customers find the book highly readable, describing it as a great read for leaders that is very motivating and inspiring.

"...Cavanaugh’s writing style is easy, inviting and engaging. The idea that I can be the change I want to see in others is not a new one...." Read more

"Everyone should read this book! First - it's compelling and fun to read... There are real people stories - people you can relate to, and want..." Read more

"This was of the easiest business books to read and put into practice - bought for all of my direct reports - these simple things can set the tone..." Read more

"...Anise captures the essence of purposeful leadership. A great read, and continual reference." Read more

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Customers find the book's content easy to practice, with one customer highlighting its simple suggestions and practical steps, while another notes how it focuses on internal self-management.

"...These are simple and easy to put into practice tools to enhance all of my relationships and help me be mindful about how I am affecting the people..." Read more

"...If I want others to be engaged, I need to lead by example. Pretty simple stuff yet often hard to recall as I go about my days and interact with..." Read more

"...you can take help you not only have more impact, but get more clear on ideal outcomes, and make the most of your personal IEP...." Read more

"...privilege to attend one of Anese's workshops and seen firsthand how effective and pragmatic her work is - it made an immediate difference in my..." Read more

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Customers find the book has a huge impact, with one customer noting it's an important factor in organizational culture, while another describes it as a powerful force.

"...The big takeaway is that you yourself are an important factor in the culture of your organization...." Read more

"...What you quickly discover from this book is the individual impact that YOU have - whether it's at work, in a classroom, or in your family - you have..." Read more

"Anese gracefully straddles the realms of “woo" and the worldly with Contagious Culture, helping us get conscious and intentional about our..." Read more

"...into their life as a Way of Being allowing Presence to be the powerful impacting force to bear upon whatever is being created...." Read more

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"...This book has provided me more tools in my toolbox to help carry myself in a professional, positive way...." Read more

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Customers appreciate the writing style of the book.

"...Cavanaugh’s writing style is easy, inviting and engaging. The idea that I can be the change I want to see in others is not a new one...." Read more

"...pages, and I found this book a profound, yet also smooth and easy, read." Read more

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  • Matt Klein
    5.0 out of 5 stars Cavanaugh’s writing style is easy, inviting and engaging
    Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2016
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    I firmly believe there are no coincidences in life. So when this book popped into my consciousness, I took the right action, picked it up and read it cover to cover. Cavanaugh’s writing style is easy, inviting and engaging. The idea that I can be the change I want to see in others is not a new one. But the manner in which she delivers the message and packages how exactly to be that change is refreshing.

    Every day when I walk out my door I actively work to “set my intention.” This book has provided me more tools in my toolbox to help carry myself in a professional, positive way. If I want others to be engaged, I need to lead by example. Pretty simple stuff yet often hard to recall as I go about my days and interact with colleagues, family and friends.

    It doesn’t matter if you lead a large group or you manage projects – this book has something for everyone. I loved it so much and was inspired to a degree I’ve not felt in a long while. Taking the message to heart – be contagious with the culture you want to live in – I outfitted my business unit with copies of this book. It’s that good. I was inspired to share the author’s message to as many as I can.

    This is one of those books that will be dog-eared and marked up with multiple readings over time. It’s a valuable and timeless message that hits home for wherever you are personally or professionally. Well done Anese Cavanaugh.
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  • Roest
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very inspiring
    Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2024
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    I found this book so inspring that I bought copies for two of my colleagues right away. The big takeaway is that you yourself are an important factor in the culture of your organization. It’s easy to blame others or circumstances but that shouldn’t keep you from standing up for your beliefs and values. Part of this is also looking at yourself and caring for yourself to have the strength to show up. All of this was an eye opener and a game changer for me.
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  • Dorothy Etter
    5.0 out of 5 stars A book for every "Individual" - not just Corporations or those tasked with impacting "Culture"
    Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2017
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    Everyone should read this book!
    First - it's compelling and fun to read... There are real people stories - people you can relate to, and want to follow.
    Second - it's about so much more than "Culture." Culture is such a corporate buzzword, but the truth is any culture is made up by individual people. What we call a "culture" is just a byproduct of their attitudes & actions - how they show up, how they treat each other, what they bring to the table.

    What you quickly discover from this book is the individual impact that YOU have - whether it's at work, in a classroom, or in your family - you have more impact than you know... Which means you can influence the outcome!

    What Anese provides in this book are EASY ACTIONS you can take help you not only have more impact, but get more clear on ideal outcomes, and make the most of your personal IEP.

    You owe it to yourself, your teams, your company, your family, and the causes you care about to get this book and expand your IEP. You'll be glad you did!
    2 people found this helpful
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  • Ramzan Amiri
    4.0 out of 5 stars Step by Step approach to changing organizational Cultural.
    Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2017
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    Interest approach related to IEP and personal attitude. The author makes you think about importance of being Present at all times.
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  • Dave
    5.0 out of 5 stars Your 'presence' as a leader matters more than you know - and you can do something about it! This book will teach you how.
    Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2015
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    Contagious Culture is a great read for any leader who wants to increase their team's level of creativity and energy. If you've struggled to understand why the same words and tactics have an entirely different impact from one day to the next, this book will help you see the difference that 'how you show up' can make, and teach you how to consistently create the kind of experience that leaves team members, partners and clients energized and inspired.

    Anese's IEP (Intentional Energetic Presence) methodology has been a secret weapon for leaders at some of the most innovative, creative organizations in the world, including IDEO, Zingermans and Cooper. I've had the privilege to attend one of Anese's workshops and seen firsthand how effective and pragmatic her work is - it made an immediate difference in my effectiveness as a CEO. Moreover, Anese is one of those rare human beings that truly walks her talk - she shows up with a grace, generosity and confidence that immediately transforms the environment she's in. Now, we can all learn to do the same by understanding the exact method she uses and has taught to many of the most innovative leaders in the world.
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  • Roxy
    3.0 out of 5 stars Good read
    Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2017
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    Great ideas. A bit repetitive. Inspiring.
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  • LiYana Silver
    5.0 out of 5 stars Gracefully straddles the realms of “woo" and the worldly
    Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2017
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    Anese gracefully straddles the realms of “woo" and the worldly with Contagious Culture, helping us get conscious and intentional about our impact on whomever we are working with, and, ultimately, on behalf of. I appreciated Anese’s powerful overviews on leadership as well as her more granular, simple suggestions — for example, what to do with sticky issues like complaints, jealousy, and burnout.

    Even though I am not a leader of a large team or organization, this book has nevertheless spoken to me as a small biz owner and coach. I’ve enjoyed this deeper look at the ways I already am “contagious” to my small support staff, my clients, course participants, and, of course, my own self. Anese’s passion for this work comes clearly through these pages, and I found this book a profound, yet also smooth and easy, read.
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  • Michelle Choate
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Book - A true must read for everyone
    Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2019
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    Everyone should read this book!
    First - it's compelling and fun to read... There are real people stories - people you can relate to, and want to follow.
    Second - it's about so much more than "Culture." Culture is such a corporate buzzword, but the truth is any culture is made up by individual people. What we call a "culture" is just a byproduct of their attitudes & actions - how they show up, how they treat each other, what they bring to the table.

    What you quickly discover from this book is the individual impact that YOU have - whether it's at work, in a classroom, or in your family - you have more impact than you know... Which means you can influence the outcome!
    2 people found this helpful
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  • Paulo Peres
    4.0 out of 5 stars Começa com você, em como você se mostra para o mundo e como a cultura permite isso
    Reviewed in Brazil on December 21, 2019
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    O livro é uma boa proposta de método aplicável em empresas (e times). Existem ótimas dicas ao final de cada capítulo que resumem bem um how-to para aquele que quer fazer suas avaliação cultural.

    Como é um método aplicado na IDEO, isto me interessou bastante.

    Porém, acredito que o livro poderia ser escrito com mais objetividade e em alguns momentos ele se torna difícil de se diferenciar alguns temas de avaliação pessoal, na prática.

    Recomendo para fazer refletir sobre sua cultura organizacional e de time.
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