Preface: Our Leadership Manifesto—Better Leaders, Better World.
Introduction: Democratizing Coaching.
1. What’s the Opportunity in Coaching for You?
Part One: Your Extraordinary Business Challenge.
2. Declare an Impossible Future—That Captures People’s Imagination
3. Face Reality—Identify What’s Missing That, if Provided, Will Produce a
4. Create a Source Document—Vision, Major Milestones, Key Initiatives, Guiding
5. Get Everyone to Formulate a Significant Business Challenge—Create Line of Sight to Strategic Goals
6. Desperate to Break Out of the No-Growth Morass?—Blow Up Your Business Model Versus Tinker at the Margins
7. Looking to Get a Chunk of Capital at Your Next Board Meeting?—The Best
8. Create Customers Who Brag About You—Shift from a “Me” Point of View to a “You” Point of View
Part Two: Your Extraordinary Leadership Challenge.
9. Be an Extraordinary Leader—Recognize That Your Winning Strategy has Gotten You
10. Stand for Something!—Leadership Arises in Discovering Yourself as the Stand You Take
11. Get Your Grand Design Over the Line—Vision Is Not Enough! Execute on Your
12. Become a Master Politician—The Art of Politics for Non-Politicians
13. Lateral Leadership: How to Lead When You Are Not in Charge—Build Coalitions
14. Take an A Player in Every Job—Coach B’s, Redeploy or Release Chronic C’s
15. Stop Being a Victim of Your Calendar—Start Focusing on What Makes a Difference, Not What’s Merely Important or Trivial
16. Get Ready for Big Meetings Like a Championship Game—Focus on Who You Need to Be and On What You Need to Do
17. Do You Have a Burning Ambition?—Seize the Crown, Stop Being Just a Good Soldier in the Long March of History
18. Network to Match Your Ambition—Power Comes Not from Your Position but from How Connected You Are
19. Sourcing a Powerful Relationship with Your Boss—The Art of Managing Up to Get Ahead
20. Create an Extraordinary Career in a Turbulent World—Go for Mastery, Not Competence
21. Dealing With Derailers—Shine Your Light, Manage Your Darker Side
22. There’s a Conversation Out There About You That’s a Career Wrecker—Publicly Acknowledge It, Take Responsibility for It, Campaign to Change It
23. Beat Burnout—Get to the Source of Frustration First, Then Deal With Overload
24. Fed Up with Your Job? Take the “Go to America” Attitude and Get Out—Write a Résumé That Is a Ticket to a New and Better Universe
Notes.
Glossary of Concepts.
Acknowledgments.
About the Authors.
Index.