Contents
Introduction: Righting the Ship
- Thank God It’s Friday
- Establishing Your Balance Points
- Discovering Your Strengths
- Scoping Out Your Goals
- The Coach’s Clipboard
- Have a Dream
- Commit to Your Dream
- Define Your Passion
- Honor Other People’s Dreams
- Learn People’s Stories
- Keep Rewriting Your Story
- Accept Your Leadership Role
- Develop Daily Practices and Family Rituals
- Think Before You Act
- Inspire, Don’t Intimidate
- Fill Those Buckets
- Recognize Your Blind Spots
- Know Your Emotional IQ
- Figure Out Where Your Role Begins—and Ends
- Look Out the Window and In the Mirror
- Foster a Learning Environment
- Know Your Limits
- Control Your Temper
- Practice Self-reflection
- Ask When Enough Is Enough
- Own Your Idiosyncrasies
- Follow the New Golden Rule
- Don’t Take People for Granted
- If You’re Stuck, Get Unstuck
- Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
- Don’t Make It All About You
- Be Like Warren
- Cultivate Friendships
- Mix and Match Personalities
- Think Positive
- Communicate in a Crisis
- Get the Help You Need
- Forget Trying to Control People
- Don’t Act Just to Maximize Profits
- Don’t Skimp on the Feedback
- Apologize When You’re Wrong
- Don’t Be Afraid to Ask, “How Am I Doing?”
- Spread the Credit
- Play Hard
- Manage Your Energy as Well as Your Time
- Avoid Cutoffs
- Take Good Care of Yourself
- Be Disciplined
- Lighten Up
- Build Free Days Into Your Schedule
- Be Smarter Than Your Smartphone
- Do a Strategic Retreat With Your Family
- Plan a Weekly Date Night
- Learn to Walk Side by Side
- Send a Message
- Give Back
- Wake Up From Your Deep Sleep
- You Be the Coach
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