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CONTENTS

Introduction: The Power of Visual Thinking

PART ONE: Leading with…Visuals

1. What is VisuaLeadership?

2. Why Visuals?

3. What’s Your Sign?

4. How My 30-Second Napkin Sketch Solved a Client’s Multimillion-Dollar Problem

5. A Love Letter to Horrible Bosses

PART TWO: Leading with…Visual Models

6. ABC Decision-Making Tool

7. Put Your CAP On: Assessing and Enhancing Your Confidence, Assertiveness, and Presence

8. Cycle of Learning and Development

9. Delegation Decision-Making Matrix

10. The Five Levels of Proactivity

11. The Five Types of Feedback

12. Future Self: Two Questions That Can Forever Change Your Life

13. Head, Heart, Hands, and Feet

14. The Hierarchy of Followership: Is it More Important to be Liked, Admired, Respected, or Trusted?

15. In Defense of the Feedback Sandwich

16. The Learning/Enjoyment Matrix

17. The Passion/Skill Matrix: Do What You Love, and Love What You Do

18. The Pizza Slice Approach to Difficult Conversations

19. The PowerDial: The Power to Change…to Get the Power You Need

20. Stop, Start, Continue, and the Magic Wand

21. The Ten Types of Visual Thinking

22. Three-Legged Stool Communication/Presentation Model

23. Bonus Model: Purpose, Way, Impact (PWI)

Part Three: Leading with…Visual Metaphors. Why Metaphors?

24. Black Sock Decision-Making: One Simple Way to Help Simplify Your Life

25. The Elephant in the Room

26. Leadership Lessons from Donna the Deer Lady

27. The Little Pink Spoon: How to Give ’em a Taste and Leave ’em Wanting More

28. Making the Bed: How Overcoming Procrastination Will Make You More Productive

29. Management vs. Leadership in Metaphors

30. Mum’s the Word

31. Play Ball! Twenty Thought-Provoking Coaching Questions from the Baseball Field to Help You Succeed at Work and in Life

32. “Put Me in, Coach” vs. “Put Me in Coach”

33. Remote Control Your Life

34. The Viz-o-Meter

35. Walking the Leadership Tightrope

36. Yellow Ball Leadership

37. Your Leadership Weather Report

Part Four: Leading with…Visual Stories. Why Stories?

38. Ego-free Leadership

39. Generous Leadership: My Grant Tinker Story

40. Here Comes the Ice Cream Man

41. How Being a Quitter Can Make You a Winner

42. How My Cardiologist Almost Gave Me a Heart Attack: (Or, the Right and Wrong Ways to Communicate Numbers)

43. How to Honk Your Way Out of a Job

44. How to Regain Your Confidence and Recapture Your Mojo After a Setback

45. Ice, Rice, or Mice: Has This Ever Happened to You?

47. No Shirt for You

48. PTBD (Post-Traumatic Boss Disorder)

49. Rules Are Rules…or Are They?

50. Slow Down Your Thinking to Speed Up Your Progress

51. Spanning the Decades: Career Advice for Every Age and Every Stage

52. Taking the Leap

53. That’s a Novel Idea! How Reading Literature (and Other Nonbusiness Books) Can Benefit You at Work and in Life

54. What Gets Recognized and Rewarded Is What Gets Done

55. Why it’s More Important to Be Interested than Interesting

56. Why My Wife Doesn’t Trust Me Anymore* (aka The Cockroach Story)

Part Five: VisuaLeadership: What Now, What Next?

57. VisuaLeadership and the Future of Work

58. Ten Tough Questions Every Self-Aware Leader Needs to Be Able to Answer

59. Your Leadership Journey: The Road Ahead

60. Final Thoughts: Reflection, Introspection, and Connection

Twelve Authors Who Had the Greatest Impact and Influence on My Thinking, My Work, and My Life

Todd’s Bookshelf: Forty-plus Favorite Authors/Book Recommendations to Help You Become a Better VisuaLeader

Forty Classic Leadership Models or Concepts That Every Business Professional Should Know (or At Least Know About)

Some of My All-time Favorite VisuaLeadership-related Quotes

Acknowledgments

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