Heroic Leadership: Leading with Integrity and Honor -- Contents -- Introduction: The Concept of Heroic Leadership -- Battle Leadership -- The Carrot and the Stick -- How to Acquire Heroic Leadership -- Part One: The Eight Universal Laws of Heroic Leadership -- Chapter 1: Maintain Absolute Integrity -- Lose Your Integrity, Lose Your Career -- No Cut -Off Date, No Limit Price -- Pursue the "Harder Right" -- Guard Your Principles -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Know Your Stuff -- Knowing Your Stuff, Whatever You Do -- Bill Gates's Advantage -- Study Overcomes Odds -- Learn from Every Experience -- Failure Can Lead to Success -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Declare Your Expectations -- Vision -- Vision and Success -- Plan and Implement -- Promote Your Expectations -- Listen to Feedback -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Show Uncommon Commitment -- Commitment in Business -- The Magic of Uncommon Commitment -- Changing the Face of an Industry -- Commitment and Risk -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Expect Positive Results -- Salvaging Success in Antiquity -- Rescuing a Modern Company -- Career Success Despite All Odds -- Visualize Success -- Be Real -- Maintain Your Enthusiasm -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Take Care of Your People -- How Far to Go -- When Things Go Wrong -- Risking Prison -- Learning Priorities -- Taking Personal Responsibility -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Put Duty Before Self -- Duty First -- A Rarity in Industry -- Mission and People -- Consider Yourself Last -- Conquest-and Care -- Sharing the Pain -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Get Out in Front -- Leading in Combat -- Out Front with the Piranhas -- Why You Must Get Out in Front -- Women in Battle and in Boardrooms -- Two Generals Set the Example -- Others Want to See You Do It First -- Becoming an Up-Front Leader -- The Disk Drive King -- Summary -- Part Two: The Eight Basic Influence Tools -- Chapter 9: Direction.

Direction on the Ground -- Nonverbal Orders -- Giving Up a Holiday -- Overuse of Direction -- Erroneous Assumptions -- Misplaced Direction -- Summary -- Influence for Leading Up -- Chapter 10: Indirection -- And Influence for Leading Down -- How Quality Came to Japan -- Getting Things Done in Government -- Donald Trump and Indirection -- Indirection in the Navy -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Redirection -- Using Redirection -- Redirection in a Crisis -- General Grant and Redirection -- Redirection in an Impossible Situation -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Deflection -- Deflection and Sponsorship -- Deflection and Sales -- Deflection and Silence -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Enlistment -- Enlistment for Life-and-Death Tasks -- Making the Enlistment Tool Work -- Volunteers -- Getting Out in Front -- Making Challenging Work Fun -- Summary -- Using Persuasion -- Chapter 14: Persuasion -- Logic -- Personal Need -- Persuasion and Time Pressure -- Persuasion in Business -- Summary -- Chapter 15: Negotiation -- Negotiation in War -- Knowledge-of Desire-Is Power -- Using Reward as an Incentive -- Summary -- Chapter 16: Involvement -- Ownership of Ideas -- Three Subsets of Involvement -- Involving Others When You Have No Authority -- Summary -- Part Three: The Eight Competencies of Heroic Leadership -- Chapter 17: How to Attract Followership -- Make Others Feel Important -- Treat Others as You Would Be Treated Yourself -- Take Responsibility for Your Actions and Admit Your Mistakes -- Praise in Public, Criticize in Private -- See and Be Seen -- Make Striving a Game -- Summary -- Chapter 18: How to Develop Your Self-Confidence -- Know You Can Succeed -- Four Ways to Build Self-Confidence and Leadership Skills -- Summary -- Chapter 19: How to Build a Heroic Team -- Leadership and Athletics -- What Every Winning Athletic Team Has -- Cohesion -- Teamwork -- Summary.

Chapter 20: How to Build High Morale and Esprit de Corps -- High Morale -- Esprit de Corps -- Summary -- Chapter 21: How to Motivate When Times Get Tough -- What Matters Most -- Drucker's Volunteer Paradigm -- What People Want on the Job -- When Salary, Job Security, and Benefits Do Matter -- Summary -- Chapter 22: How to Take Charge in Crisis Situations -- Establish Your Objective -- Communicate Your Objective -- Be Bold -- Be Decisive -- Dominate the Situation -- Lead by Example -- Fire and Hire -- Summary -- Chapter 23: How to Develop Your Charisma -- Show Your Commitment -- Look the Part -- Dream Big -- Keep Moving -- Do Your Homework -- Build a Mystique -- Use the Indirect Approach -- Summary -- Chapter 24: How to Solve Problems and Make Decisions -- The Task of All Leaders -- Keep Problems from Overcoming Your Vision -- Solving Problems -- Summary -- Epilogue -- Why Can't Leaders Lead? -- The Stuff of Heroes -- Notes -- About the Author -- Index.