Dive Brief:

• When you get a choice, which you usually do, to think positively or negatively about business prospects and developments, there is a chance to push the positive, and it can make a difference.
• Positive thinking – being a glass-half-full type – is not a magic potion, but dwelling on negative developments could could your ability to see opportunities to reverse setbacks.
• On a wall at Interface, a company that designs and makes carpet tiles widely used in construction, leaders posted a quote from a poet that says positive and "negative, destructive, fearful and unhappy" thinking cannot share space in you're going to create success.

Dive Insight:

Contractor Merrill Stewart learned that the poet whose words were on the wall is Sidney Madwed. He's a motivational speaker as well as a poet.