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1 If It's Lonely at the Top, You're Not Doing Something Right 1 --
2 The Toughest Person to Lead Is Always Yourself 11 --
3 Defining Moments Define Your Leadership 20 --
4 When You Get Kicked in the Rear, You Know You're out in Front 32 --
5 Never Work a Day in Your Life 41 --
6 The Best Leaders Are Listeners 49 --
7 Get in the Zone and Stay There 57 --
8 A Leader's First Responsibility Is to Define Reality 66 --
9 To See How the Leader Is Doing, Look at the People 74 --
10 Don't Send Your Ducks to Eagle School 85 --
11 Keep Your Mind on the Main Thing 96 --
12 Your Biggest Mistake Is Not Asking What Mistake You're Making 105 --
13 Don't Manage Your Time-Manage Your Life 114 --
14 Keep Learning to Keep Leading 124 --
15 Leaders Distinguish Themselves During Tough Times 134 --
16 People Quit People, Not Companies 143 --
17 Experience Is Not the Best Teacher 154 --
18 The Secret to a Good Meeting Is the Meeting Before the Meeting 164 --
19 Be a Connector, Not Just a Climber 174 --
20 The Choices You Make, Make You 184 --
21 Influence Should Be Loaned but Never Given 193 --
22 For Everything You Gain, You Give Up Something 203 --
23 Those Who Start the Journey with You Seldom Finish with You 213 --
24 Few Leaders Are Successful Unless a Lot of People Want Them to Be 223 --
25 You Only Get Answers to the Questions You Ask 232 --
26 People Will Summarize Your Life in One Sentence-Pick It Now 244.
