Index

A

  • Abra
  • Accountability
  • Agency for Performing Arts (APA)
  • Ahearn, Bella
  • Ahearn, David
    • background of
    • career change by
    • relationships of
    • role of
  • Alder, Shannon L.
  • Alive film
  • Angry Customer
  • Appreciation
  • Armed Forces Entertainment Tour
  • “Artists and Poets” exercise
  • The Art of War (Sun Tzu)
  • Authenticity
    • genuine
    • learning
    • quirks and
    • success based on

B

  • “Band of Brothers”
  • Bank One
  • Barchetti, Katherine
  • Bass brothers
  • Bass Hall, Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall
  • Bass, Ed
  • Belief
    • children
    • intention meeting
    • power of
    • in product
    • ROI
  • Bermuda Star
  • Bermuda Triangle
  • Birmingham Barons
  • Bullock
  • Bush, George W.
  • Bush, George W., Jr.
  • Business
    • conflicts in
    • customer experience and
    • growth of
    • humor in
    • model
    • opportunity
    • reinvestment in
    • relationships in
    • social media and
    • survival
    • vision and
  • Business survival rate
  • BUT (Behold the Underling Truth)

C

  • Camp Bondsteel
  • Camp, Todd
  • Caravan of Dreams
    • closing of
    • creation of
  • Carlin, George
  • Carson, Johnny
  • Casa Mañana
  • Casa on the Square
  • Chesapeake Bay Golf Resort, Spa and Marian
  • Choice
    • fear-based
    • lifestyle
    • low-percentage
    • method of
  • Circle theater
  • Clark, Jennifer
  • Clooney, George
  • “Cocktail napkin” exercise
  • Collaboration
  • Conscientiousness
  • Considerate “no”
  • Corporate ladder
  • Creative Artists Agency (CAA)
  • Crisis management
  • Customers
    • appreciation of
    • infesting in
    • valuing
  • Cycle of giving

D

  • Dallas Cowboys
  • Dallas/Fort Worth
  • Darkness
  • Disney studios
  • Dreams
    • achieving
    • inspiration
    • pressure from
    • pursuing
    • remembering
    • sabotaging
    • unrealized

E

  • Earl-from-accounting effect
  • Edwards, Jessica
  • “Ego to WEgo” exercise
  • Empathy
  • Endeavor Talent Agency
  • Entourage
  • Entrepreneurs in Residence
  • Expansion
  • Expertise

F

  • Facebook
  • Farmer’s Almanac
  • Fear
  • Ferguson, Chamblee
  • Fiserv
  • Fiserv Forum
  • Ford, Frank
    • acting ambition of
    • career change by
    • early success of
    • relationships of
    • role of
    • Second City and
  • Ford, Freddy, Jr.
  • Ford, Henry
  • Forever Plaid
    • inaugural performance
    • longevity of
    • review of
  • Fort Worth. See also Dallas/Fort Worth
    • benevolence of
    • civic leaders
    • exploring
  • Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce
  • Fort Worth Star Telegram
  • Fort Worth Zoo
  • Fort Worth’s Greatest Ambassadors
  • Four Day Weekend
    • Armed Forces tour
    • breakup of
    • business model
    • catalysts for
    • economy recovery
    • evolution of
    • extension of
    • fabric of
    • first performance of
    • forecasting by
    • getting started
    • governance of
    • legacy of
  • make-up by
    • marketing by
    • mutual support in
    • online presence
    • pilot project
    • recognition of
    • saying no at
    • sellouts by
    • Southwest Airlines and
    • team work at
    • training center
    • twentieth anniversary celebration
    • US financial crisis and
    • workshops by
  • Frank, Barney

G

  • “Get lost” pilot
    • agent for
    • frustration with
    • inauthenticity of
    • launch of
    • original concept of
    • pitching of
  • Gift givers
  • “Gift-giving” exercise
  • Glass, Ira
  • Goodman, John
  • Grant, Troy
    • background of
    • departure of
    • early success of
    • venue suggestion by
  • “Gratitude” exercise
  • Group mind
  • Growth
    • as birthright
    • challenges to
    • sustaining

H

  • Hamilton, Alexander
  • Hanukkah story
  • Hendricks, Michael
  • Hiddleston, Tom
  • Hierarchy
  • Holt, David
  • Hotspot
  • Humor

I

  • Ideas, See also Products
    • acceptance of
    • cocktail
    • framing of
    • materialization of
    • origin of
    • other peoples’
    • staff
    • value of
  • “I get to” exercise
  • Improvisation
    • central tenet, exercise for
    • choices in
    • culture of
    • definition of
    • ensemble and
    • idea acceptance in
    • individual success in
    • possibilities of
    • practical application of
    • Who question in
  • “Inspire” exercise
  • Instagram
  • Institutionalized thinking
  • International Creative Management (ICM)
  • “Ira Glass on Storytelling”

J

  • Jobs, Steve
  • Jordan, Barbara
  • Jordan, Michael
  • Jubilee Theater
  • Jung, Carl

K

  • Kay, Sarah
  • Keitel, Harvey
  • Keynote speeches
  • Kickstarter campaign
  • Kimbell Art Museum
  • Kindness
  • “Know-it-all” complex
  • Kosovo

L

  • Larson, John
  • Legacy
  • “Life at play” exercise
  • Lord of the Rings
  • Lost
  • Loyalty

M

  • Maccabee on the Mantel?
  • Machiavelli, Niccolò
  • Marshmallow Fun Co.
  • Meese, Michael
  • Mistakes
    • benefiting from
    • exercise
    • learning from
    • percentage choice vs
  • Monaghan, Dominic
  • Moncrief, Mike
  • Moving outside comfort zone philosophy
  • MTV
  • My Super Sweet 16

N

  • Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall
  • Neeley School of Business
  • New York Times
  • No, but” philosophy
  • “No Mistakes” exercise
  • Notorious B.I.G.

O

  • Obama, Barack
  • “Offer help” exercise
  • Opportunity
    • appearance of
    • building on
    • seizing of
  • Organization
    • acceptance in
    • crisis management in
    • dedication to
    • institutionalized thinking in
    • success of
    • vision of

P

  • Passion
    • creating
    • list
    • to product
    • shared
    • teaching
    • true
  • Percentage choice
  • Perception
  • Picasso, Pablo
  • Pilot project. See “Get lost” pilot
  • Pissing contest
  • Pitt, Brad
  • Plan B
  • Poi-Zen
  • Positive-mindset recalibration exercise
  • Power of we
  • Products, See also Ideas
    • belief in
    • great
    • inferior
    • passion to
  • Pryor, Richard
  • Python, Monty

Q

  • Quirks

R

  • Rat Pack
  • Re-Zen
  • Reactive “no”
  • Reata
  • Relationships
    • based-scenes
    • business
    • fostering of
    • importance of
    • leaving
    • long-term, fostering
    • sabotage
    • supportive
  • Return on Improvisation (ROI)
  • Royal Armed Force Lakenheath
  • Ryan, Nolan

S

  • Sanchez, Linda
  • Sands Hotel
  • Saturday Night Live
  • Second City
  • Secret Blue Butterfly
  • Seinfeld, Jerry
  • Selfish performer
  • Sense of humor
  • Setbacks
  • “Shared-experience” exercise
  • Sharp, Paul
  • Show business
  • Slavens, Paul
  • Small Business of the Year
  • SMILE
  • Smith, Emmitt
  • Social media
  • Southwest Airlines
  • Spirit magazine
  • Staff
    • changes
    • ideas from
    • importance of
    • loyalty
    • valuing
  • standi “Standing ovation” exercise
  • Stockyards
  • “Superstar” complex
  • Success
    • authenticity and
    • entrepreneurial
    • factors for
    • individual
    • requesting
    • shared passion and
  • Sun Tzu
  • Sundance Square
  • Sundance Square Management

T

  • Talent agencies
    • A-level
    • B-level
  • Teams
    • building
    • collaboration
    • group mind in
    • leaders’ role
    • management
    • ROI from
  • Texas Christian University
  • Texas Rangers
  • The Art of War (Sun Tzu)
  • Tietze, Mike
  • Tila Tequila
  • Tonight Show
  • Toy Fair
  • Training center
  • TripAdvisor
  • Trust
    • building
    • in process
    • in us
  • Tull, Oliver
  • Twitter

U

  • Uniqueness
  • United Kingdom
  • United States Congress show
  • Unmotivated speaker
  • Unselfish performer

V

  • Valuing people
  • Venetian Ballroom
  • Vision
    • Bass’s
    • Hollywood
    • importance of
    • need for

W

  • WEgo
  • “Why game” exercise
  • Wilk, Amy
  • Wilk, David
    • background of
    • business acumen of
    • career change by
    • early success of
    • Hanukkah idea
    • Larson conversation
    • marriage of
    • quirks of
    • role of
    • salary of
    • Second City experience of
  • William Morris Endeavor (WME)

Y