Table of Contents
Author's Note ix
Introduction 1
Section I Never Excellent Enough
Chapter 1 Choose the Hard Path-Excellence in Knowledge and Capacity 17
Chapter 2 Build Comfort with Discomfort-Excellence in Strength and Control 43
Chapter 3 Live with Incredible Confidence and Extreme Humility-Excellence in Accountability and Orientation 63
Section II Never Agile Enough
Chapter 4 Be a Leader and a Follower, and Know When to Be Which-Agility in the Roles You Play 87
Chapter 5 Learn How to Think, Not What to Think-Agility in the Decisions You Make 114
Chapter 6 Gain Authority by Giving It Away-Agility in the Organizations You Lead 136
Section 3 Never Meaningful Enough
Chapter 7 Push Your Values Out into the World-Finding Meaning as an Individual 169
Chapter 8 We Live and Die for People, Not Causes-Meaning in the Bonds We Build with Others 195
Chapter 9 Make Differences Where They Will Count the Most-Meaning in Contribution to the World 219
Acknowledgments 229