List of Stories

Chapter 1

• Chip Huth and KCPD SWAT team—arrests and baby bottles, 3–8

• Mark Ballif, Paul Hubbard, and the outward-mindset approach at their healthcare company, 8–11

Chapter 2

• Mia trying to improve her communication techniques, 14–15

Chapter 3

• Louise Francesconi and her team cutting $100 million, 21–25

Chapter 4

• Ms. Tham, and healthcare workers orienting themselves to help, 31–32

• Ivan Cornia beating his father’s favorite cow, 33–34

Chapter 5

• Chris Wallace and his father, 39–46

• Not sharing information with Lori, 47–48

Chapter 6

• Arbinger being self-focused before a pitch to a potential client, 52–54

• Arbinger realizing it had an inward mindset in the way it had worked with clients, 54–55

• Joe Bartley tucking in his daughter Anna, 57–58

Chapter 7

• Navy SEALs and the importance of an outward mindset, 59

• Bill Bartmann and the debt-collection agency CFS2, 61–63

• The San Antonio Spurs and their outward-mindset culture, 63–65

Chapter 8

• Alan Mulally and the Ford turnaround, 69–77

Chapter 9

• Shortening a power company’s capital budgeting process, 79–81

• Brenda Ueland at parties, 82–83

• Rob Dillon of Dillon Floral learning to love customer visits, 83–84

• Playing hide-and-seek with the misbehaving boy, 85–88

• Attorney Charles Jackson returning money to his clients, 88–90

• Hope Arising determining an outward-mindset metric for clean water delivery in Ethiopia, 90–91

Chapter 10

• Jack Hauck, Larry Heitz, Al Kline, and Tubular Steel, 93–94, 96–100

Chapter 11

• KCPD officer Matt Tomasic being protected from a dangerous suspect by community members, 107

• Matt Tomasic leading change on the West Side of Kansas City, Missouri, 107–111

• A company resolving a labor-management dispute to avoid arbitration, 111–112

Chapter 12

• The collective goals of many of the organizations in this book, 115–117

Chapter 13

• John and Sylvia Harris planning with their children, 121–123

• Dan Funk helping employees turn their whole brains back on in their work, 123–126

• Rob Anderson and the Superior Water and Air leadership team planning their work with an outward mindset, 126–129

Chapter 14

• Executives on the same floor, 133–134

• Effect of a parent who violates family rules, 134

• Alan Mulally eating in the company cafeteria rather than Ford’s executive dining room, 134–135

• Scott O’Neil and Madison Square Garden, 136–137

• Hospitals and “ancillary staff,” 137–138

• Richard Sheridan and Menlo Innovations, 138–139

Chapter 15

• Perverse effect of a forced-distribution rating system at a global technology company, 143–144

• Tom Brakins, Landa Corporation, and the effect of inwardly focused success metrics, 146–151

Chapter 16

• Woman whose brother was released from prison, 153–155

• Mark Ballif learning that he could do more, 156–159