Why You Need to Be Thoughtfully Ruthless. Thoughtful and Ruthless -- The Cost of Doing Nothing -- Your Selfish Charter -- Become Brilliant at Demonstrating Your Brilliance -- Thoughtfully Ruthless with Your Time. The Power of No -- Shush! How to Create Silence, Space, and Time -- Thoughtfully Ruthless with Your Energy. Becoming Imperturbable -- Divorce Your Friends and Network -- Creating a Leapfrog Organization -- The Thoughtfully Ruthless Team -- Amazon Versus Microsoft -- Mind the Gap.

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Annotation Unlock explosive growth potential with the true model of modern leadership Thoughtfully Ruthless lays out the secret to rapid business growth by showing you how to magically invent more time, catapult your energy, and boost the productivity of your resources. Author Val Wright has worked with leaders of all stripesfrom doctors to musicians to Fortune 50 C-suite executivesto help them unlock their potential and achieve the next level of success. Her experiences have shown time and time again that it's not the economy, or the market conditions, or the competition that's holding your business back. The secret to exponential growth lies within how leaders ruthlessly manage their time, energy, and resources in parallel. Everyone is on a virtual center stage with the whole world watching and reporting every move, leaders need to know how to be ruthless in a thoughtful way. This book shows you how to become that kind of leader, and how to adopt the habits, skills, and practices of some of the most successful business leaders of our time. You'll learn how to become sensibly selfish, how to spend your time and energy, and what issues to delegate or ignore so you can clear your slate to focus on what really matters to you. In a world where rapid growth is the new norm, we have input overload. Leadership is much-lauded but commonly under-practiced in business today. This book is designed to help you shape your leadership to drive business growth, get you promoted faster, and create a life that you love. Recover your time and energy away from black holes Focus on the factors that really impact your business Identify and build the all-star team you need tomorrowtoday Create magnetic support and followership Learn the secret to pulling ahead of the competition With all the boardroom handwringing about products, the new consumer, and financial results, it's easy to get sucked into issues that ultimately have only a granular effect on real growth. Thoughtfully Ruthless leadership differentiates remarkable leaders and companies. This book provides a model for growth-oriented leadership, and lays out the essential practices you should start today.

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