Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Meet Your Sacred Cows -- Unexamined Virtues at Work -- The Peril of Sacred Cows -- Solving the Virtue Problem -- Find Your Hidden Beliefs -- Balance -- Collaboration -- Creativity -- Excellence -- Fairness -- Passion -- Preparation -- Train Your Cow, Train Yourself -- Chapter 2 Bold Balance -- Avoid the Allure of Unhealthy Balance -- The Power of Bold Balance -- Seven Steps to Make Your Balance Bold -- 1. Audit for Unnecessary Compromise -- 2. Sprint in Intervals -- 3. Throw Out Your Leftovers -- 4. Hold Strong Opinions Weakly -- 5. Build a Portfolio of Options -- 6. Start a Stop Doing List -- 7. Embrace the Paradox -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Accountable Collaboration -- You'd Better Play Well With Others -- The Auto-Collaboration Mandate -- The Rare, Productive Joy of Working Alone -- Seven Steps to Make Your Collaboration Accountable -- 1. Audit to Eliminate Automatic Collaboration -- 2. Make Teams Temporary -- 3. Let Underperformers Sink or Swim -- 4. Stay Aligned with the Bigger Picture -- 5. Own Your Results -- 6. Hunker Down -- 7. Unplug -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Useful Creativity -- Scratching the Itch of New -- Useful Creativity -- Seven Ways to Make Your Creativity Useful -- 1. Understand the Source of Your Creative Energy -- 2. Rechannel Your Creative Energy -- 3. Repurpose on Purpose -- 4. Make a Remix -- 5. Create Analogies -- 6. Fill Out the (Right) Form -- 7. Curate -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Outcome Excellence -- Inside the Secret Messiness of Excellence -- A Second-Rate Path to a First-Rate Destination -- Seven Steps to Make Your Excellence Meaningful -- 1. Lower the Stakes -- 2. Ask Dumb Questions -- 3. Embrace the Hacker Mentality -- 4. Accept the Mess of Progress -- 5. Start a Meaningful Journey with a Meaningless Map -- 6. Embrace OK -- 7. Play Around -- Conclusion.

Chapter 6 Process Fairness -- Fair Minded -- Fehr Game -- Seven Ways to Train Your Brain to Focus on Process Fairness -- 1. Projection Detection -- 2. Break the Golden Rule -- 3. Vive la Différence! -- 4. Discriminate Courageously -- 5. Play a Bigger Game -- 6. Check Up on Others -- 7. Check Up on Yourself -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Harmonious Passion -- Good Passion, Bad Passion -- The Sustaining Strength of Harmonious Passion -- Seven Steps to Make Your Passion More Harmonious -- 1. Find Your Shard of Glass -- 2. Lead from Behind -- 3. Stop Proving Yourself Right -- 4. Start Proving Yourself Wrong -- 5. Stay Healthy with the Buddy System -- 6. Stay Out of Trouble with the Buddy System -- 7. Look Outside Yourself -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8 Onstage Preparation -- The Inertia of Preparation -- All the World's a Stage -- Seven Ideas to Take Your Preparation to Center Stage -- 1. Troubleshoot Your Preparation Style -- 2. Learn by Doing -- 3. Hold (Moot) Court -- 4. Pretotype -- 5. Practice with Intensity -- 6. Be More Human -- 7. Apprentice Each Other -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9 Extinguish Your Backfires -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Index.