Table of Contents
Introduction Failure Teaches You to Succeed 15
Chapter 1 Starting Fires 19
Chapter 2 Resistance to Change 23
Chapter 3 Think Big 29
Chapter 4 Leading From the Back 33
Chapter 5 I Want to Throw Up 39
Chapter 6 Pause and Celebrate the Moment 49
Chapter 7 Frank Sinatra, Henry Mancini, and Herb Lee 57
Chapter 8 Hire for Attitude 61
Chapter 9 Family, God, and the Green Bay Packers 67
Chapter 10 Learn From Your Mistakes 71
Chapter 11 Pushing Yourself to Fail 77
Chapter 12 Break a Rib 83
Chapter 13 Winning and Losing the Negotiation Game 87
Chapter 14 Never Threaten to Quit Anything 95
Chapter 15 Answer the Question, Please 103
Chapter 16 Anaerobic Creativity 109
Chapter 17 Continuous Improvement 113
Chapter 18 Losing Control 119
Chapter 19 More Valuable Than Money 123
Chapter 20 Investing in People: The HR ROI 127
Chapter 21 Let Me Help You Find a New Job 131
Chapter 22 Negative Listening 137
Chapter 23 Even Geniuses Can Fail 141
Chapter 24 Keep Your Edge 145
Chapter 25 Confronting Fear and Surviving the Epic Crisis 149
Chapter 26 Blow it Up 159
Chapter 27 Why Wait? 163
Chapter 28 I Can't Find My Ball 167
Chapter 29 It's the Economy, Stupid 173
Chapter 30 Change Is My Drug of Choice 179
Postmortem 185
Index 187
About the Author 191
