The Art and Adventure of Leadership: Understanding Failure, Resilience, and Success -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Authenticity of Ambition -- To Be President or to Do President -- The Crucible's Work -- An Etymology of the F-Word -- Chapter 1: Redefining Success and Failure -- Leadership As Playing With Fire-The Very Fire of the Gods -- It Depends: The Contingency Principle in Action -- Why We Must View Leadership Through the Lens of Complexity -- Chapter 2: Why Success Requires the Right Kind of Appetite for the Fight -- If You Do Want to Do Leadership . . . -- Reality Check: Leadership As 70 Percent Trivia -- Staying Out of Prison, and Other Benefits of a Healthy Expression of Leadership Skill -- Management Versus Leadership -- Chapter 3: Accepting and Exercising Moral Responsibility: The Ability to Accept-And Manage-Responsibility for Difficult Ethical Choices -- When there Is No Win-Win Scenario: The Painful Moral Calculus of Failure -- The Ability to Compromise-And to Be Compromised -- A Compromised Saint: The Dilemma of Thomas More -- Chapter 4: Avoiding Groupthink, Mass Media, and the Failures of the Herd -- Failures Caused By Groupthink -- Why Leaders Don't Follow the News: Ignoring Today's Trivia in Search of Timeless Truths -- Information Versus Gossip -- Media Myopia Is Most Visible in Hindsight -- Chapter 5: A Timeless Reading List That Leads to Timely Success -- Beware the Trade Press -- A Daily Dose of Discipline -- Chapter 6: When Failure Is Baked Into the System -- How Democratic Governance Avoids and Prevents Failure -- Failure and Disillusionment -- Defending Democracy -- Where Good Decisions Are Born -- Democracy Works As Science Works -- A Brazen Prediction About Democracy's Success -- Chapter 7: Bankruptcy and Failure As the Great American Pastime: A Land of Second Chances.

The Human Consequences of Fear of Failure -- Conclusion Redeeming Failure -- Note From the Writer -- Notes -- Chapter 1 Redefining Success and Failure -- Chapter 2 Why Success Requires the Right Kind of Appetite for the Fight -- Chapter 5 a Timeless Reading List That Leads to Timely Success -- Chapter 6 When Failure Is Baked Into the System -- Chapter 7 Bankruptcy and Failure As the Great American Pastime -- Conclusion -- Note From the Writer -- About the Authors -- End User License Agreement.