Scale or Fail

Index

• ABIOMED, 12
• Abundance mindset, 204–206, 216
• Accountability, 140
• Accountants, 63
• Active listening, 137
• Advisors, 8–9
• Ali, Muhammad, 218
• Alice in Wonderland (Carroll), 10, 40
• Alliance of team (SCALE), 15, 99–146
  • and Four Quandrants, 100–105
  • hiring for, 105–117
  • and leadership, 117–127
  • with virtual teams, 116–117
• Allie & You: The Business Success and Lifestyle Show, 157
• Allison Maslan International, 17
• Allstate, 21
• Amazon.com, 10, 69, 93, 206
• A-N-C Cold Storage, Inc., 99–100
• Anderman, Sig, 12
• Angelou, Maya, 160
• Apple, Inc., 10, 93, 107, 218
• Arista Networks, 12
• Arnold, Jan, 119
• Ash, Mary Kay, 118
• Assaraf, John, 205
• AT&T, 61

• Baer, Jay, 37
• Bakery and Golden State Foods, 99
• Barali Group, 21–22
• Barnes & Noble, 87
• Bechtolsheim, Andy, 12
• Ben & Jerry's, 2, 21
• Bernoff, Michael, 65
• Bezos, Jeff, 7, 12
• Big Picture Vision, 215
  • defined, 36–37
  • developing, 38–42
  • executing, 161–162
  • exercise for, 42–44
  • Mind Map for, 43f
  • sharing, 52–54
  • tools for, 48–51
  • visualizing, 45–48
• Blast Off!: The Surefire Success Plan to Launch Your Dreams in Reality, 41
• Blue Plate Special Number, 64
• Bon Appetit, 99
• Borders Group, 87
• Brainstorming, 48–50
• Branson, Richard, 7, 106, 218
• Brown, H. Jackson, Jr., 152
• Buddha, 175
• Burroughs, John, 19
• Business:
  • blueprints for, 11–13, 24–27
  • coaches for, 208
  • cycle of, 62, 151–152
  • failing, 10–11
• Business success:
  • five phases of constructing, 211–215
  • four super powers of, 102, 103f, 104–105
• By Referral Only, 158

• Callas, Maria, 218
• CA Office Liquidators, 95
• Carroll, Lewis, ...