Speed: How Leaders Accelerate Successful Execution

INDEX

Accuracy, 45

Acknowledgment of new skills, 139

Action steps, 149

Adams, Scott, 66–67

Adapting to change, 21

Aesop, 21

Age:

average Pace Assessment scores by, 23–24

and courage, 130

and expectation to move faster and do more, 32–33

and external focus, 159–160

and initiative, 169, 170

and pace, 34

Pace Assessment scores by gender and, 24–25

Agendas, meeting, 74–75

Agile development, 39

Airline flight pricing, 39–40

Allen, David, 48

Alumni associations, participation in, 164

Amazon, 38

Ambiguity, moving forward despite, 174

Anticipating problems, 172

Apple, 3–4

Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station (film), 155–156

Ash, Mary Kay, 85

Asking, in powerful communication, 146, 148

Assessment(s):

of courage, 126–130

of pace, 13–14 (See also