Thoughtfully Ruthless

<p>Foreword xi</p>
<p>Preface xiii</p>
<p>Acknowledgments xv</p>
<p>Part I Why You Need to Be Thoughtfully Ruthless 1</p>
<p>Chapter 1 Thoughtful and Ruthless 3</p>
<p>The Trigger Points for Thoughtfully Ruthless 3</p>
<p>Who Is Thoughtful? Who Is Ruthless? 5</p>
<p>Can You Name One? 6</p>
<p>Your Time, Energy, and Resources 7</p>
<p>How Thoughtfully Ruthless Are You? 15</p>
<p>Chapter 2 The Cost of Doing Nothing 19</p>
<p>The Cost of Delay 20</p>
<p>The Downward Spiral of Gloom 21</p>
<p>The Thoughtfully Ruthless Success Loop 25</p>
<p>Chapter 3 Your Selfish Charter 29</p>
<p>Your Sensibly Selfish Charter 32</p>
<p>Wishful Thinking Works 35</p>
<p>Chapter 4 Become Brilliant at Demonstrating Your Brilliance 39</p>
<p>Assessing Your Brilliance and How Brilliantly You Demonstrate It 40</p>
<p>Why Appearance Trumps Reality Every Time 42</p>
<p>How to Transform from Being Humble to Shameless 48</p>
<p>Your Action 50</p>
<p>Part II Thoughtfully Ruthless with Your Time 53</p>
<p>Chapter 5 The Power of No 55</p>
<p>The Powerful Post–It 56</p>
<p>The Immediacy Effect 57</p>
<p>How to Be Productively Unproductive 60</p>
<p>How to Control Input Overload 61</p>
<p>Your Lost Discipline List 63</p>
<p>Thirty Ways to Say No 64</p>
<p>Chapter 6 SHUSH!: How to Create Silence, Space, and Time 67</p>
<p>Your Daily Silence 67</p>
<p>The Gift of Time 70</p>
<p>In–box in Control 73</p>
<p>Calendar Chaos 77</p>
<p>Meaningful Meetings 79</p>
<p>The Thoughtfully Ruthless Deadline Tracker 84</p>
<p>Part III Thoughtfully Ruthless with Your Energy 89</p>
<p>Chapter 7 Becoming Imperturbable 91</p>
<p>How to Stop the Worry Trifecta 91</p>
<p>Rapid Thought to Action 95</p>
<p>How Imperturbable Are You? 96</p>
<p>Managing the Energy Leaks 98</p>
<p>Your Accelerators and Decelerators 100</p>
<p>Accelerating by Improving Your Sleep, Nutrition, and Exercise 100</p>
<p>Chapter 8 Divorce Your Friends and Network 109</p>
<p>The Greenhouse Effect 110</p>
<p>Put Your Social Life on Autopilot 113</p>
<p>An Enviable Inner Circle of Advisors 115</p>
<p>Internal and External Connections 116</p>
<p>Communities 116</p>
<p>Perfecting Your Team s Connections 117</p>
<p>Surrounding Yourself with Believers 117</p>
<p>Chapter 9 Creating a Leapfrog Organization 119</p>
<p>Your Five–Year Leap 119</p>
<p>The Intentional Annoyance Phase 124</p>
<p>Building an Exemplary Board 127</p>
<p>Leaving Your Legacy 132</p>
<p>Chapter 10 The Thoughtfully Ruthless Team 135</p>
<p>Steps for Galvanizing Your Team 138</p>
<p>The Characteristics of a Galvanized Team 142</p>
<p>Do You Tolerate Mediocrity? 149</p>
<p>Chapter 11 Amazon versus Microsoft 155</p>
<p>Assessing Your Culture 160</p>
<p>Can You Take the Heat? 167</p>
<p>Reward the Results You Want 169</p>
<p>Unleashing Innovation 170</p>
<p>Using the Cultural Continuum 171</p>
<p>The Express Lane to Culture Change 172</p>
<p>Chapter 12 Mind the Gap 173</p>
<p>Evaporating Excuses 173</p>
<p>Prepare for Abrupt U–turns 175</p>
<p>Change Your View, Change Your Habits 176</p>
<p>Listen to Who You Listen to 177</p>
<p>Evidence, Patterns, and Observed Behavior 177</p>
<p>Practice Altitude Adjustment 179</p>
<p>Make Unpopular and High–Risk Decisions 179</p>
<p>Appendix 185</p>
<p>Ninety–Nine Ways to Be Thoughtfully Ruthless with Your Time 185</p>
<p>Ninety–Nine Ways to Be Thoughtfully Ruthless with Your Energy 190</p>
<p>Ninety–Nine Ways to Be Thoughtfully Ruthless with Your Resources 194</p>
<p>About the Author 201</p>
<p>Index 203</p>