Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
positive mode
English answer:
positive frame of mind
English term
positive mode
we saw in chapter 1) suggests that the quip by the executive pitched the management team's emotional centers into a positive range of activity. This, presumably, helped the group avoid becoming ... how he was keeping them on track in a positive mode. As we have already noted, the artful use of humor typifies effective leadership. That doesn't mean that you should always ..."
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Balasubramaniam L.
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| 3 +6 | in a positive way |
Ziad Marzouka
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PRO (2): Balasubramaniam L., RHELLER
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India
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Native in: Hindi 
Works in: English to Hindi, Hindi
positive frame of mind
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Note added at 1 hr 12 mins (2005-06-26 06:51:00 GMT)
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In the light of your added context, this is how I reconstruct the scene:
The marketing chief is not too happy with how the product is selling and he has painted a gloomy picture of the whole thing. The entire team is in this frame of mind and is unable to think up any solution as to how the situation could be turned around. Just then this executive cracks a joke which dispells the gloominess and people come back into a positive frame of mind and soon arrive at a suitable solution to the problem.
All this happens so naturally that no one is even aware that the executive had made any conscious effort at steering the group back into the right frame of mind.
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conejo
: Both Ziad's and B's comments could be right: It depends on the entire context, of which we are given only part.
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Switzerland
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Native in: Arabic (Variant: Jordanian)
Works in: English to Arabic, Italian to Arabic, Arabic to English
in a positive way
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Tony M
: Yes, partly; but it doesn't just mean that 'his way of keeping them on track was positive', but also, that they were 'on track in a positive direction'
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Thanks Dusty I agree with your opinion too
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comment about attitude
positive mode versus negative mode
When a person or a management team is in negative mode, everything seems bad and hopeless, as if there is NO way to change the situation; when the group mindset is in positive mode, people start getting creative, thinking "out of the box", and solutions appear where there were none before.
Discussion
This humor, presumably, helped the group avoid becoming emotionally hijacked by fixating on the problem- the marketing chief's error- thus letting them swiftly move on to the solution.And executive did all that without having to say anything explicity about how he was keeping them on track in a positive mode. As we.....