Adversity, 11
Affordable Care Act in 2010, 46
Air Force Academy, 32
Alberta Avalanche Rescue Dog Association, 44
Appalachian State University, 45
Avalanche rescue, 42
Bennett, Logan, 47
Alberta Avalanche Rescue Dog Association, 44
avalanche mitigation work, 40
Canadian Avalanche Rescue Dog Association (CARDA), 43
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
university presidencies, 51–52
passion for leadership, 52
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
instinctual bent towards leadership, 27
leadership performance, 28
public service, 26
working in public sector, 27
Contrarianism, 9
Criminal law, 31
Facebook, 55
Google, 55
Halo bias, 41
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
Magnificent Leadership®
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
O. Henry Prize, 1
as an attorney, 33
financial stability, 32
Orpheus Descending (Williams), 35
Passion and aspiration, 67
PEN/Hemingway Award, 1
Pragmatism, 9
Project Music, 8
Pushcart Prizes, 1
Sara, Sensei, 22
Self-interrogation, 21
Snow Safety at Sunshine Village Ski Resort, 39–43
Social Security Administration, 25–29
Strata Decision Technology, 7–12
book on personal safety, 22
frame of reference, 23
challenges of health care and education, 56–57
volunteering, according to, 57
U.S. health care, 46
online dating at 91, 17
USAF Academy, 51
Wake Forest University, 45
The Wall Street Journal, 37
Williams, Tennessee, 35
employees of Blue Cross and, 49–50
leadership’s self-mastery, 48–49
role of leadership, 46