The Intelligent Leader

Index

• Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Diamandis), 76
• Abundance mindset, 76–77
• Actionable, zeroing in on the, 31
• Action plan, making a, 158
• Adjustment, psychology of, 125–132
• Administrative Science Quarterly, 57
• Age of Distraction, 107–108
• Agility, 123–125, 153
• Al Alalawi, Nabil, 64–65
• Ali, Muhammad, 22
• Alignment culture, 143
• Al Mansoori Specialized Engineering, 64–65
• Amazon, 28
• Amplification, culture of, 148–149
• Analytical thinking, 110
• Apollo moon program, 26
• Apple Inc., 21–23, 34, 35, 144
• Armstrong, Neil, 26
• Arrogance, avoiding, 35
• Awareness:
  • of the big picture, 101–102
  • of your behavioral footprint, 112–113

• Baby boomers, 57
• Baseball, 25
• Basketball, 126–127, 147, 151–152
• Beane, Billy, 25
• Beginning with the end in mind, 32–34
• Behavioral footprint, and being aware of your, 112–113
• Beliefs, 12
• Benko, Cathy, 124–125, 131
• Bezos, Jeff, 28
• Bias, negativity, 75–79
• Bigcommerce, 142
• Big picture, being aware of the, 101–102
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 111
• Botswana, 30–31
• Bottom line, humility and the, 45–46
• Bouncing your ideas off others, 31
• Brain, human, 76
• Brand, Peter, 25
• Branson, Richard, core purpose statement of, 36
• Breathing, 119–120
• Bryant, Kobe, 152
• Buddhism, 115–116, 151

• Campbell Soup Company, 36
• Cancer, 65
• Canekeratne, Kris, 49, 152–153
• Capability culture, 143
• Cathcart, Lyne, 49–50, 92
• Change:
  • children and, 43
  • committing to, 157–158
  • embracing, 97–99
  • paradox of, see Paradox of change
  • preference for, 127
• Changing course, 129–130, 135–137 ...