Index

Adversity, 11

Affordable Care Act in 2010, 46

Aging, 14–15

Air Force Academy, 32

Alberta Avalanche Rescue Dog Association, 44

Allscripts, 8, 9, 55

Appalachian State University, 45

Aspiration, 2, 13, 67

Avalanche rescue, 42

Bedlam Theater Company, 31–37

Bennett, Logan, 47

Alberta Avalanche Rescue Dog Association, 44

avalanche mitigation work, 40

Canadian Avalanche Rescue Dog Association (CARDA), 43

ski cutting, 39, 44

at Sunshine Village ski resort, 39–45

Bible, 25

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, 1, 5

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, 45–50

Born, Dana, 51–54

university presidencies, 51–52

passion for leadership, 52

teaching at Harvard, 52–54

Boston Marathon, 7

Boston University, 32

Brief Encounters With Che Guevara, 4–5

Canadian Avalanche Rescue Dog Association (CARDA), 43

Canterbury University, 40

Chicago marathon, 7

Colvin, Carolyn, 25–29

instinctual bent towards leadership, 27

leadership performance, 28

optimism, 28–29

public service, 26

working in public sector, 27

Contrarianism, 9

Criminal law, 31

Facebook, 55

Fountain, Ben, 1–5

Goodwin, 32–34

Google, 55

Halo bias, 41

Hamlet, 36, 37

Harvard University, 51

Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, 51

Hindsight, 42

Hunt, Jim, 47

International Board of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, 56

Leader(s)

“robust” as a, 42

as “people person,”, 50

becoming an industrial, 54

in work of leadership, 28

questing for self-mastery, 39–50

times of trial for, 50

See also Specific Leaders

Leadership

elements of, 44

essence of, 28

poetic vision of, 28

pressures of executive, 48

role of, 46

See also Leader

Leadership’s self-mastery, 48

Livongo Health, 54–57

Los Angeles (LA), 34–35

Magnificent Leadership^®

Bennett, Logan, 39–45

Born, Dana, 51–54

Colvin, Carolyn, 25–29

Fountain, Ben, 1–5

Michelson, Dan, 7–12

O’Keefe, Tom, 31–37

practical applications, 59–66

three fuel lines of, 67–68

Toterhi, Tim, 19–23

Tullman, Glen, 54–57

Ungar, Selma, 13–17

Wilson, Brad, 45–50

Michelson, Dan, 7–12

as CEO, 9–12

at Allscripts, 8–9

importance of framing, 11–12

qualitative and quantitative reviews of, 10–11

scoreboard and, 11

Middlesex District Attorneys (DA’s) office, 32

National Book Critics Circle Award, 1

Newspaper, 25

The New York Times, 37

The New Yorker, 1, 5

O. Henry Prize, 1

O’Keefe, Tom, 31–37

as an actor, 35–36

as an attorney, 33

at Goodwin, 32–34

at Los Angeles (LA), 34–35

financial stability, 32

Orpheus Descending (Williams), 35

Passion and aspiration, 67

PEN/Hemingway Award, 1

Plotline Leadership, 19–23

Pragmatism, 9

Project Music, 8

Pushcart Prizes, 1

Resilience, 14, 46

Saint Joan, 36–37

Sara, Sensei, 22

Self-interrogation, 21

7 Wire Ventures, 54–57

Ski cutting, 39, 44

Snow Safety at Sunshine Village Ski Resort, 39–43

Snow science, 41–42

Social Security Administration, 25–29

Strata Decision Technology, 7–12

Toterhi, Tim, 19–23

book on personal safety, 22

frame of reference, 23

martial arts skills, 19–21

Tullman, Glen, 54–57

as CEO, 54–56

challenges of health care and education, 56–57

volunteering, according to, 57

U.S. attorney, 31, 32

U.S. health care, 46

Ungar, Selma, 13–17

aging and, 14–15

as fundraiser, 15–16

online dating at 91, 17

technology and, 13–14

volunteering, 15–16

USAF Academy, 51

Volunteering, 13, 15, 16, 57

Wake Forest University, 45

The Wall Street Journal, 37

Williams, Tennessee, 35

Wilson, Brad, 45–50

employees of Blue Cross and, 49–50

knowledge of history, 45–46

leadership’s self-mastery, 48–49

role of leadership, 46