Thoughtfully Ruthless : The Key to Exponential Growth.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Why You Need to be Thoughtfully Ruthless -- Chapter 1: Thoughtful and Ruthless -- The Trigger Points for Thoughtfully Ruthless -- Who Is Thoughtful? Who Is Ruthless? -- Can You Name One? -- Your Time, Energy, and Resources -- How Thoughtfully Ruthless Are You? -- Chapter 2: The Cost of Doing Nothing -- The Cost of Delay -- The Downward Spiral of Gloom -- The Thoughtfully Ruthless Success Loop -- Chapter 3: Your Selfish Charter -- Your Sensibly Selfish Charter -- Wishful Thinking Works -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Become Brilliant at Demonstrating Your Brilliance -- Assessing Your Brilliance and How Brilliantly You Demonstrate It -- Why Appearance Trumps Reality Every Time -- How to Transform from Being Humble to Shameless -- Your Action -- Part II: Thoughtfully Ruthless with Your Time -- Chapter 5: The Power of No -- The Powerful Post-It -- The Immediacy Effect -- How to be Productively Unproductive -- How to Control Input Overload -- Your Lost Discipline List -- Thirty Ways to Say No -- Chapter 6: Shush! -- Your Daily Silence -- The Gift of Time -- In-Box in Control -- Calendar Chaos -- Meaningful Meetings -- The Thoughtfully Ruthless Deadline Tracker -- Part III: Thoughtfully Ruthless with Your Energy -- Chapter 7: Becoming Imperturbable -- How to Stop the Worry Trifecta -- Rapid Thought to Action -- How Imperturbable are You? -- Managing the Energy Leaks -- Your Accelerators and Decelerators -- Accelerating by Improving Your Sleep, Nutrition, and Exercise -- Chapter 8: Divorce Your Friends and Network -- The Greenhouse Effect -- Put Your Social Life on Autopilot -- An Enviable Inner Circle of Advisors -- Internal and External Connections -- Communities -- Perfecting Your Team's Connections -- Surrounding Yourself With Believers.

Chapter 9: Creating a Leapfrog Organization -- Your Five-Year Leap -- The Intentional Annoyance Phase -- Building an Exemplary Board -- Leaving Your Legacy -- Chapter 10: The Thoughtfully Ruthless Team -- Steps for Galvanizing Your Team -- The Characteristics of a Galvanized Team -- Do You Tolerate Mediocrity? -- Chapter 11: Amazon Versus Microsoft -- Assessing Your Culture -- Can You Take the Heat? -- Reward the Results You Want -- Unleashing Innovation -- Using the Cultural Continuum -- The Express Lane to Culture Change -- Chapter 12: Mind the Gap -- Evaporating Excuses -- Prepare for Abrupt U-Turns -- Change Your View, Change Your Habits -- Listen to Who You Listen to -- Evidence, Patterns, and Observed Behavior -- Practice Altitude Adjustment -- Make Unpopular and High-Risk Decisions -- Appendix -- Ninety-Nine Ways to be Thoughtfully Ruthless With Your Time -- Ninety-Nine Ways to be Thoughtfully Ruthless With Your Energy -- Ninety-Nine Ways to be Thoughtfully Ruthless With Your Resources -- About the Author -- Index -- End User License Agreement.

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