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About the Book

Unlock explosive growth potential with the true model of modern leadership Thoughtfully Ruthless lays out the secret to rapid business growth by showing you how to magically invent more time, catapult your energy, and boost the productivity of your resources. Author Val Wright has worked with leaders of all stripes—from doctors to musicians to Fortune 50 C-suite executives—to help them unlock their potential and achieve the next level of success. Her experiences have shown time and time again that it's not the economy, or the market conditions, or the competition that's holding your business back. The secret to exponential growth lies within how leaders ruthlessly manage their time, energy, and resources in parallel. Everyone is on a virtual center stage with the whole world watching and reporting every move, leaders need to know how to be ruthless in a thoughtful way. This book shows you how to become that kind of leader, and how to adopt the habits, skills, and practices of some of the most successful business leaders of our time. You'll learn how to become sensibly selfish, how to spend your time and energy, and what issues to delegate or ignore so you can clear your slate to focus on what really matters to you. In a world where rapid growth is the new norm, we have input overload. Leadership is much-lauded but commonly under-practiced in business today. This book is designed to help you shape your leadership to drive business growth, get you promoted faster, and create a life that you love. Recover your time and energy away from black holes Focus on the factors that really impact your business Identify and build the all-star team you need tomorrow—today Create magnetic support and followership Learn the secret to pulling ahead of the competition With all the boardroom handwringing about products, the new consumer, and financial results, it's easy to get sucked into issues that ultimately have only a granular effect on real growth. Thoughtfully Ruthless leadership differentiates remarkable leaders and companies. This book provides a model for growth-oriented leadership, and lays out the essential practices you should start today.

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

About the Author :
VAL WRIGHT works with Fortune 500 executives to accelerate growth and innovation, and creates compassionate truth telling, fearlessness, and extensive creative, technical, and leadership gains. Her clients include household names such as Starbucks, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Financial Times, and DreamWorks Animation. She's an inductee into the Million Dollar Consultant® Hall of Fame and she is a regular contributor on CNBC, Inc., Bloomberg, Reuters, MSN and Today.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781119222590
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Standards Information Network
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: The Key to Exponential Growth
  • ISBN-10: 1119222591
  • Publisher Date: 22 Apr 2016
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 224


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