Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog.
Note: Contents data are machine generated based on pre-publication provided by the publisher. Contents may have variations from the printed book or be incomplete or contain other coding.
Table of Contents Acknowledgements B&W photo of team and list of the people who made this possible. Forward ? by Senator John McCain Preface ? It?s getting harder to find companies, careers & relationships that last ? It?s time to make other plans Introduction ? From Built to Last to Success Built to Last ? The Mandela Effect ? Why people say this book is already overdue at the library ? Conversations with remarkable people ? Why your quest for lasting success can be a gift to the world ? How we found the people ? Avoiding the apprentice trap ? The dark side of leadership ? Why Peter Drucker believed leadership is pointless conversation without understanding what success means ? The dark side of enduring leadership ? What?s wrong with a lot of research ? Why take this journey? 1. From Great to Lasting ? What high achievers don?t tell you about success and survival that you really need to know ? Why it?s time to redefine success ? Achieving success by abandoning popular delusions ? How success can betray you ?Why lottery winners are losers and why celebrity is synonymous with short term marriages and long term addictions ? Searching for meaning ? How alignment of Meaning, Thought and Action move you from being a one-hit wonder to long-term success ? The teen detective and the ravishing redhead reporter ? One thing that does last forever 2. Love it or Lose it ? Why you?re not safe in that safe job ? How all you have is personal capital (and we?re not talking money) ? Why it?s dangerous not to do what you love ? There are no worthy careers ? Lovers finish first ? Why Warren Buffet thinks the way most folks build their careers is like saving up sex for old age ? Finding your Inner Geek ? The only thing you have power over ? The secret to life ? From handshakes to hugs ? Finding your flow experience ? Why celebrating what?s right with the world is not considered cool ? Is it rational optimism or irrational exuberance ? ? There isn?t one path for everybody and for everybody there is a path Part I: Meaning What Does Meaning Mean? 3. The Silent Scream ? Why it?s so damn hard to do what matters ? What gets you sidetracked, hijacked, & diverted from lasting success ? Four reasons to give up right now before you do something stupid ? Status Symbols for Your Soul ? How there is no passion without pain and how there is more pain without passion ? Why there is no list of ?Worthy? careers ? The seduction of Bright Shiny Objects ? Status Symbols for your soul ? Why we?re more obsessed with being loved than being what we love ? The Perversion of competence ? Why we ask the right question but refuse to hear the answer ? The tyranny of the OR and the genius of the AND ? How success can be the worst thing that happens to you ? Why you can?t wait for a standing ovation to validate what matters to you ? If you haven?t found your lover yet, keep looking ? Why Steve Jobs dropped out of school 4. Core Values and the Quest for Meaning ? The reinvention of four ex- Presidents ? Don?t treat passion like a trivial pursuit ? Lasting Success is a serendipitous search for meaning ? The paranoid survive, but the passionate prosper ? Be careful what you wish for, but don?t let that stop you on your path to redefining success ? The purpose driven leader ? What values matter to lasting success? ? What a billionaire purveyor of soft porn and the celibate Dalai Lama have in common 5. The Cause has Charisma ? When the cause has charisma, shrinking violets bloom in public ? It?s the Work That Has Permission ? Give me liberty or give me death; How Norma chose between her calling and suicide ? Why de-colonizing your mind is the first step ?Dr. Doolittle & the silverback gorilla ? Consider your work as shrine to your life ? How the world would be a darker place without you ? Why self-esteem is highly overrated ? Making your passion take flight ? What to do if your dream never becomes popular? ? Trust your passion enough to become an expert at it ? A Leader gives the culture what it needs, not what it expects ? How many of the world?s great leaders were considered neither great, nor even leaders in their day Part II: ThoughtStyles Extreme Makeovers Start in Your Head 6. Portfolio of Passions ? There?s NOT Just One Thing To Do With Your Life ? Why two or more passions are better than one ? About stealth passions ? Why Balance is Bullshit ? The balance you?re seeking is a meaningful portfolio, not a balanced one ? How seemingly unrelated interests can make you more focused ? Why Google and 3M pay you to play on the job ? Saving lives for 64 cents each ? When a portfolio turns into a specialty ? transforming lives for 64 cents apiece ? Why only the passionate prosper ? How every passion counts 7. The Tripping Point ? When the worlds most successful people sound like losers? Why positive thinking can hurt you ? How Builders harvest failure ? Would you be willing to change if it saved your life? ? Why Yoda is so misunderstood: When trying IS doing ? How when the going gets tough, feelings come last ? Failure as the father of invention ? Why there is a dark side to every best practice ? How persistence is often just another addiction ? How if you quit it lasts forever ? Losers call it failure; winners call it learning ? You?ve paid your tuition, so now collect your paycheck ? Always make new mistakes ? Failure is a better teacher than success ? You can have it all, but not all at once ? How hard work can be rewarded by bad headlines ?The myth of timing ? Why most people prefer to be lucky rather than smart 8. Wounds to Wisdom ? How There is no cure ? Trust your weakness ? How to use your core incompetencies and leverage your worst embarrassments ? Why you don?t use a weakness as a reason to distrust yourself ? Why you can?t have it all until you learn to use it all ? What you can learn from the struggle of heroes ? What Jack Welch learned about leadership from blowing up a factory ? What an eye surgeon learned from McDonalds ? How you find greatness at the intersection of pain and passion ? How innovation is failure sped up ? Letting go of what doesn?t work ? Case dismissed ? How both pessimism and optimism can kill you ? When appreciation and gratitude seem insane Part III: ActionStyles: Turning Passion into Action 9. Earning Your Luck ? How Big hairy audacious goals help you prepare for serendipity ? Why you have to earn your luck ? What Builders really think about goals and plans ? The myth of authenticity ? Too much presidential information ? Developing the explorer mentality - The subtle art of the BHAG ? Bold risks measured in small steps ? Small wins beat long odds ? Responsible Chutzpa and Audacious Accountability ? Why size doesn?t matter when it comes to lasting success ? Measuring what matters and keeping score ? How failures in measurement kill more people than automobile accidents ? When bad goals happen to good people ? The secret life of goals ? What Steven Covey really meant ? How Dell, Welch and Grove redefined success ? Keeping your goals honest 10. Naked Conversations: Harvesting Contention ? Contention as a perk ? Focus the struggle on the issue, not each other ? how to avoid delusions of grandeur ? Ground rules for creative contention ? Why putting your values on trial is a good idea ? How to harvest contention ? Making sure the best idea wins ? The importance of finding common ground ? How you can turn your next fight into a feast ? 1-800-con-tention ? Don?t be right, be effective 11. Creating Alignment ? Why anything worth doing can?t be done alone ? Recruiting a team to your dream ? Relationships built to last ? Why your only as good as your people ? Don?t believe in words ? only believe in behaviors ? How three little words can have amazing power ? Understanding the power of TalkStyles ? Why the environment always wins ? In search of the miraculous ? Why understanding incentives really matters ? The secret Part IV: Appendix and Reference
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Success in business.
Successful people.