III. ActionStyles—Turning Passion into Action
by Mark Thompson, Stewart Emery, Porras Jerry
Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters
- Copyright
- Praise for Success Built to Last
- Wharton School Publishing
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: From Built to Last to Success Built to Last
- 1. From Great to Lasting—Redefining Success
- I. Meaning—How Successful People Stay Successful
- 2. Love It or Lose—Passions and the Quest for Meaning
- 3. Portfolio of Passions—It’s Not About Balance
- The Reward for the Doing Must Be the Doing
- The Answer Is Very Rarely Just One Thing
- Endowing Others with a Portfolio of Passions
- Your Passions Provide Peripheral Vision
- Stealth Passions and the Power of Peripheral Thinking
- Where You Can Be Paid For Passionate Distractions
- Transforming Lives for 64 Cents Apiece
- From Begging Bowls to Cash Boxes
- The Paranoid Survive, But the Passionate Prosper
- For Builders, Every Passion Counts
- Leaders Give What Is Needed, Not What Is Expected
- 4. Why Successful People Stay Successful—Integrity to Meaning
- II. ThoughtStyles—Extreme Makeovers Start in Your Head
- 5. The Silent Scream—Why It’s So Damn Hard to Do What Matters
- 6. The Cause Has Charisma—You Don’t Have to Be Charismatic to Be Successful
- The Courage to Move Forward
- When the Cause Has Charisma, Shrinking Violets Bloom in Public
- Making Your Passion Take Flight
- What If Your Dream Never Becomes Popular?
- Trust Your Passion Enough to Become an Expert at It
- Whatever You Are, Be a Great One
- It Starts with You, But Ultimately, It’s Not About You
- The World Would Be a Darker Place Without You
- Self-Esteem Is Highly Overrated
- 7. The Tripping Point—Always Make New Mistakes
- Life Is Short, But Some Days Are Really Long
- When Positive Thinking Doesn’t Work
- Why Yoda Is Actually Misunderstood
- Would You Be Willing to Learn if It Saved Your Life?
- When the Going Gets Tough, Feelings Come Last
- There Is a Dark Side to Every Best Practice
- Losers Call It Failure; Winners Call It Learning
- You’ve Paid the Tuition, So Now Collect Your Payback
- Always Make New Mistakes
- The Day I Blew up the Factory
- Innovation Is Failure Sped Up
- A Great Cause and Almost Pointless Defeat
- Hard Work Rewarded by Bad Headlines
- 8. Wounds to Wisdom—Trusting Your Weaknesses and Using Your Core Incompetencies
- There Is No Cure
- Don’t Use a Weakness as Reason to Distrust Yourself
- You Can’t Have It All Until You Use All You Have
- When Tragedy Strikes
- Greatness Comes at the Intersection of Pain and Passion
- Pain Had Finally Freed His Passion
- Pain or Passion Will Make You Good Enough—Pain + Passion Will Point You to Greatness
- Letting Go of What Doesn’t Work
- Case Dismissed
- Beyond Blame—Creating a Future That Matters
- III. ActionStyles—Turning Passion into Action
- 9. Earning Your Luck—Preparing for Serendipity by Using Big Hairy Audacious Goals
- You Earn Your Luck
- Are Builders Saying Goals and Plans Are Pointless?
- The Myth of Authenticity
- Too Much Presidential Information
- The Explorer Mentality
- Bold Risks Measured in Small Steps
- Responsible Chutzpah or Audacious Accountability
- For Lasting Success, Size Doesn’t Matter
- Measuring What Matters and Keeping Score
- When Bad Goals Happen to Good People
- The Secret Life of Goals
- Keeping Your Goals Honest
- 10. Naked Conversations—Harvesting Contention
- Contention as a Perk
- Struggle with the Issue, Not Each Other
- Avoiding Delusions of Grandeur
- Ground Rules for Creative Contention
- Creating a Safe Time and Place for Contention
- Creative Contention Is an Art that Builders Master
- Attention, Intention, and Contention
- You Walk in the Door and the Best Idea Wins
- Don’t Be Right, Be Effective
- 11. Creating Alignment—The Environment Always Wins
- Recruiting a Team in Support of Your Dream
- Relationships Built to Last
- You’re Only as Good as Your People and Other Tired Clichés
- Don’t Believe in Words—Only Believe in Behaviors
- The Power of Language
- The Environment Always Wins
- In Search of the Miraculous
- It’s About Understanding Incentives
- The Secret
- 9. Earning Your Luck—Preparing for Serendipity by Using Big Hairy Audacious Goals
- The Pleasure of Finding Things Out—A Look at the Research Behind Success Built to Last
- Background and Methodology
- Exploratory Field Research
- The World Success Survey
- Overall Conclusions
- Section I: Selected Key Findings: Successful People
- Section II: Selected Key Findings: Professional Success Versus Personal Success
- Section III: Selected Key Findings: Attitude Segments—A Surprising Breakthrough
- Section IV: Selected Key Findings—Demographic Categories
- Exhibit 1
- Exhibit 2
- Exhibit 3
- Exhibit 4
- Exhibit 5
- Exhibit 6
- Endnotes
- Biographical Index
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