INDEX

A

  • Acceptance
  • Achievement: lifelong; measurable
  • Action, taking: demand for; freedom from fear through; movement in; readiness for; that maintains strong relationships; training yourself for
  • Actions: aligning; responsibility for; targeting all
  • Adaptability. See also Flexibility
  • AgHub
  • Agility/nimbleness
  • Alertness
  • Alignment. See also Flow
  • Alliances: building, investing in; dysfunctional, avoiding dealing with; ending; forming the Bone Collector Brotherhood; honest, laying the groundwork for; leveraging; maintaining, investing in; ongoing maintenance of; strong, forming; value of
  • Allies: confidence in; gaining long-term; lies weakening relationships with
  • Amazon
  • American Revolution campaign
  • Anger
  • Anticipating next moves
  • Apple
  • Authentic nature: acceptance of your; being real about your; core element of our, as unchanging; expressing your; finding people who can deal with your; reminding yourself of your; seeing someone else’s
  • Authenticity: addressing, exercises for; alignment resulting from; aspects of, described; benefits of; and the Bone Collector; brand, fighting to maintain; Branson’s form of; Brink’s unique brand of maintaining; and building alliances; and claiming your native territory; and ending alliances; and forming strong alliances; getting better at building, benefit of; helping with finding leverage points; importance of; key ideas about; and maintaining alliances; and marking your target; in message delivery; overcoming negativity through; overview of; and owning your outcomes; path to; personal brand of, establishing and expressing your; resulting in real-time execution; and shedding the camouflage; and tracking peak activity periods; and the truth about lies
  • Avoidance, problem with
  • Awareness. See also Being there; Consciousness

B

  • Backpedaling
  • Being there
  • Bhargava, Manoj
  • Big picture, seeing the. See also Consciousness
  • Bitterness
  • Blaming
  • Blockbuster
  • Bluffing
  • Body language, attention to
  • Bone Collector Brotherhood
  • Borders
  • Boundaries, looking beyond
  • Branson, Richard
  • Breakout moments
  • Breakthrough moments
  • Brink, Kim
  • Buck fever
  • Buckmasters (television show)
  • Business cycles and seasons
  • Business model: changing your; existing, surveying your; pivoting to a new; thoroughly knowing your own; viewing, perspective for; vulnerabilities in your, questions for scouting out
  • Buying season
  • Buzzwords, looking beyond

C

  • Cadillac
  • Camouflage: hiding behind; masters of; shedding the
  • Capabilities. See Skills and capabilities
  • Celebration
  • Challenges: scouting the; taking on, prepared for; understanding; visualization of
  • Change: executing step-by-step; expecting; incremental; inevitability of; radical, using a series of pivots for; rapid pace of
  • Chevrolet
  • Choices: about focus, thoughts for guiding; and actions, keeping, in alignment; and repercussions, visualizing
  • Circumstance, flow of
  • Clarity: about performance patterns, gaining; absolute, benefits of having; and authenticity; of consciousness; lack of; looking at yourself and life with; maintaining; master of; as the root of leverage; shift from confusion to; in visualization. See also Consciousness
  • Clean exit, finding a
  • Clean wake, leaving a
  • Closed mindedness, result of
  • Closers, positioning of
  • Closing with command
  • Clover Technologies
  • Collaboration, productive, laying the groundwork for
  • Commitment: of allies, confidence in; to consciousness; to giving as much as getting; to a legacy; to obtaining desired endpoint; showing; true, for authentic alliances; to winning, relentless
  • Commitments, standing by
  • Common ground, focusing on
  • Communication: for building/maintaining alliances; for ending alliances; and handling tough conversations; for presenting Desired Outcomes; requirements for authenticity of
  • Competition, scouting the
  • Competitors: entry of, building a barrier to prevent; shield from
  • Confidence
  • Confusion
  • Consciousness: alignment resulting from; aspects of, described; and being present; commitment to; continuing to use, as leverage; embedding your vision in your; and ending alliances; essence of; and gaining an elevated viewpoint; getting better at building, benefit of; Gilbert as a master of clarity and; and intuition; key ideas about; and maintaining alliances; major obstacle to; in message delivery; of navigators; overcoming negativity through; overview of; practicing, exercises for; process of shifting to; Redford’s approach to; resulting in real-time execution; and scouting; and seeing everything; and sighting the target; state of, defining the; staying in, takeaway on; taking over, awareness of; and tracking peak activity periods; and understanding your nature; zone of, during the closing
  • Contacts, layers of, by tier
  • Controllability, uncovering, using visualization for
  • Conversations. See Communication
  • Costa, Gabe
  • Courage
  • Credibility
  • Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly
  • Cuba trip
  • Culture: of innovation, promoting a; strong, building a
  • Cycles and seasons: business; natural; reality of

D

  • Data: arming intuition with; from careful groundwork; interpretation of; necessary, for real-time execution; using. See also Observation-based strategy
  • Death, life and, cycle of
  • Decision making: aligning; authentic; on pivoting, guidelines for; training for
  • Defensiveness
  • Denial
  • Desired Outcomes (DO): achieving complete clarity about; alignment with; as common ground; describing your, specifically; focus on; identifying; lack of clarity on; laying out your; list of; owning your; potential impacts of players on achieving, seeing; presenting, approaches to; problems in pursuing, causes of, dealing with; process allowing you to achieve; pull toward versus push through to; realigning or adapting; revisiting, clarity in; solid, measures of; starting with clearly defined; staying on track to achieving; takeaways on; targeted; targeting every action toward; testing steps to change and every pivot against; visualization of; on way to achieving; writing down; wrong, aiming at, dealing with
  • Details: paying attention to; scouting for; visualizing, of the entire hunt
  • Detroit Venture Partners
  • Differences, looking beyond
  • Direct Source, getting to the, approach to
  • Discipline
  • Disciplined Dreaming (Linkner)
  • Disruptions, marketplace
  • Distractions: avoiding; world of
  • Diving in, problem with
  • Drift tests
  • Drug addiction analogy

E

  • Early information, scouting for
  • Early pivoting, benefits of
  • Early season
  • e-Books
  • Ecosystem, identifying every element in your
  • Effort. See Energy
  • Ego: and alignment with life; allowing, to override wisdom; anticipating responses driven by; blinded by; caught in the traps of; disregarding the; facing and understanding your; free from; helping to subordinate the, means of; lies and; listening to our; networking failures due to; replacing, with authenticity; searching for and destroying any elements of; takeaway on; targets tangled up in; time-wasters born in
  • Elevated viewpoint, gaining an
  • Emotion: allowing, to override wisdom; without
  • Emotions, negative. See Negativity
  • Energy: aiming your; alignment of; generating; guarding your time and; redirecting; running out of, risk of; thoughts for guiding choices about spending; wasting
  • Entertainment Book
  • Envy
  • Evidence-based strategy
  • Evolution: allowing for; flow of
  • Excuses: Judge’s self-talk becoming; not making
  • Execution: beginning, with a strategy in place; learning. See also Real-time execution
  • Exit strategy, having an
  • Experience: decision to pivot or wait based on; of failure, turning around the; flow of; intuition and; learning from; using past
  • Experiments, considering failures as

F

  • Facebook
  • Failure: experience of, turning around the; reframing; self-talk becoming an excuse for
  • Faith
  • Fake relationships, attempting to leverage
  • False alarms, avoiding distraction from
  • False image, maintaining a
  • False modesty
  • Farbman Group
  • Fear
  • Fearlessness. See Confidence
  • Feedback
  • Field and Stream (magazine)
  • Fierce conversations. See Tough conversations
  • 5-Hour Energy
  • Flexibility See also Adaptability
  • Flow: achieving; and alignment; ancient roots of; bucking the; building momentum within; connections in, noticing; constant, that surrounds us; defined; finding; getting in; and knowing about life’s cycles; and leaving a clean wake; overview of; push toward; recommended reading on (chap.5)
  • Focus: in closing; direct; in execution; having; losing; maintaining; on outcomes; readiness to close with; scouting demanding; on solutions and taking action; source of; takeaways on; thoughts for guiding choices about; visualization enabling
  • Ford, Henry (chap.1)
  • Freedom

G

  • Game-changer moments: achieving, example of; uncovering, using visualization for
  • Game-playing environment: avoiding a, benefits of; behavior in a
  • Gatekeepers, getting to the
  • Gates, Bill
  • General Motors (GM)
  • Gilbert, Dan
  • Globalization, effect of
  • GNC
  • Goals: fluidity of; identifying, questions for See also Desired Outcomes (DO); Ultimate goals
  • Gossiping
  • Greed
  • Groundwork: careful, data from; doing the; essential, best time for taking care of; laying the; some, time for doing
  • Groupon
  • Guilt
  • Gut reactions

H

  • Happiness
  • Herding mentality
  • Hero role
  • Honesty See also Authenticity
  • Hunt, The: beginning, at an early age; benefits of, and results of straying from the core principles; elements of, overview of; experience of; foundation for, formation of the; guarantee of the; most fundamental skill of; as a process; reason for the success of; relevancy of; tactics of; training for; who can benefit from See also Authenticity; Consciousness; Flow; Leverage; Real-time execution
  • Hunter’s Vision, seeing everything with
  • Hunter’s Wisdom; allowing emotion or ego to override; exercising; leveraging

I

  • Ignorance, cost of
  • Illusions
  • Imagining. See Visualization
  • Inc. (magazine)
  • Indecision
  • Innovation: culture of, promoting a; engines of; flow of; tweaks and; unleashed, laying the groundwork for
  • Insecurity
  • Instincts. See Natural instincts
  • Interaction: flow of; watching different types of
  • Intuition See also Natural instincts
  • iTunes

J

  • Jenkinson, William
  • Jeremiah Johnson (movie)
  • Jobs, Steve
  • Jordan, Bill
  • Journey, success coming from the
  • Judge: control held by the; flipping from, to Scout; maintaining strong relationships and the; observing as the, avoiding; seeing other perspectives and the; silencing the; voice of the

K

  • Knee-jerk reactions
  • Knowing See also Consciousness
  • Knowledge, decision to pivot or wait based on

L

  • Landscape, scouting the
  • LaNeve, Mark
  • Leadership gaps, looking for
  • Leadership shift
  • Leapfrogging
  • Learning: from all types of experiences; from breakthrough and breakout moments; for future use; from mistakes; from nature, biggest lesson to emerge out of; remaining open to; from someone else’s mistakes and successes; from the WHA experience
  • Led Zeppelin campaign
  • Legacy: commitment to a; leaving a clean wake as your
  • Leverage: alignment resulting from; aspects of, described; attempting, with fake relationships; benefiting from; benefits of; critical skills of; devising tweaks as; getting better at building, benefit of; and getting to the gatekeepers; and guarding your time and energy; human capabilities used as; Hunter’s Wisdom and; information providing; key ideas about; and oneness with others; overview of; of past successes; power of; resulting in real-time execution; root of all; Schiefelbein’s use of; sharing, with others; tiered; and tightening your strategy; timing of; and tracking your natural cycle and season; and understanding your nature; using; wanting to, for all it’s worth; and willing the win; working at building and practicing; yourself as a source of
  • Leverage Jet Stream: building a; and getting to the gatekeepers; riding on the, example of; starting your own, by learning from others
  • Leverage log
  • Leverage points: access to; defined; finding, authenticity helping with; lies weakening; looking for; mapping; tracking; unique, finding your own; using
  • Lies: avoiding, importance of; most dangerous; telling, to oneself; truths about
  • Life: alignment with; approach to; cycle of; natural order of; opportunity created by; showing up in
  • “Like a Rock” campaign
  • Limits, setting
  • Linkner, Josh
  • Listening
  • Lone-wolf approach
  • Long-range goals. See Ultimate goals
  • Long-term vision, having
  • Losing, fear of
  • Loyalty
  • Luck

M

  • Macro clarity, seeing with
  • Macro data
  • Macro-Scouting
  • Manning, Peyton
  • Markers
  • Marketplace disruptions
  • Marking the target
  • McDonald’s
  • Meaning, of goals, thinking about
  • Meditation
  • Meditation tool
  • Michael Waddell’s Bone Collector (television show)
  • Micro data
  • Micro focus, enabling
  • Micro-Scouting
  • Microsoft
  • Milestones, marking
  • Mistakes: failing to take responsibility for; learning from; learning from someone else’s; owning your; source of
  • Momentum
  • Motives: alignment with; assessing your; being honest about; faith in
  • Mundt, Nick
  • MySpace

N

  • NASCAR
  • Native territory: claiming new territory as your, example of; claiming your; standing in your; takeaways on
  • Natural cycles and seasons
  • Natural instincts: animals exploiting their; awakening your; as hunters; and inherent nature; leveraging our, need for; primal, pushing our, to the next level; waking up your See also Intuition
  • Natural order: of life; succeeding within the, faith in and
  • Nature: inherent; shared See also Authentic nature; Unique nature
  • Navigators
  • Navigator’s map
  • Negativity: avoiding being lured by; driven by; lies fueling; overcoming; result of See also Judge; specific negative emotions and thoughts
  • Netflix
  • Networking: process of; relentless
  • Networks, building and using
  • Neutrality. See Objectivity/neutrality
  • New territory: claiming, as your native territory, example of; claiming your; determining whether to move into; strategy for moving into, developing a
  • Niche industries
  • Nimbleness/agility

O

  • Objectivity/neutrality See also Consciousness
  • Observation: benefit of; clarity for; flow of; intuition and; neutrality of; as True Hunters See also Scouting
  • Observation-based strategy
  • Obstacles: fluidly moving around; major, to consciousness See also Ego; Negativity
  • Off-season
  • Oneness with your prey/others
  • Openers, positioning of
  • Openness
  • Opportunists
  • Opportunities: available, getting smarter about; hidden; identifying and leveraging; missing; new, confidence to go after; nonstop, leveraging; real-time, guided by; recognizing; source of; for spotting targets; taking on, prepared for; understanding; visualizing See also Leverage
  • Outcomes: bigger and better, on track towards; focus on; original, getting back on the trail of; owning your; successful, visualization of; undefined See also Desired Outcomes (DO)
  • Outdoor Channel
  • Outdoor Life (magazine)
  • OutdoorHub (OHub)

P

  • Packs, hunting in, value of See also Alliances
  • Paro, Jeff
  • Passion
  • Path, choosing your
  • Patience
  • Peak activity window (PAW): identifying and leveraging; identifying and leveraging your; protecting your; tool for calculating
  • Performance patterns: tracking; understanding
  • Personal brand: establishing and expressing your; exercise for thinking about your
  • Perspectives: gaining other; multiple, building; seeing other
  • Pitfalls: scouting the; visualization of
  • Pivotal indicators, spotting
  • Pivoting: allowing, when necessary; being present for; better position for; deciding between waiting or; early, benefits of; to a new business model; on-the-fly; takeaways on
  • Pivots, testing, against your Desired Outcomes
  • Players: scouting the; seeing the, and the relationships involved; visualizing challenges faced by you and
  • Poker game analogy
  • Posing
  • Position: better, for pivoting; holding your; to start tracking
  • Possibilities: leaving a wake of; range of, opening your mind to a See also Opportunities
  • Postseason
  • Potential success, pulling in more
  • Power source
  • Pre-buying season
  • Predatory wisdom. See Hunter’s Wisdom
  • Preparation, importance of
  • Pre-Season Scouting
  • Pride
  • Primal triggers/activities See also Natural instincts
  • Proactive, being, importance of
  • Problems and issues: getting to the root of, for clarity; in pursuing Desired Outcomes, causes of, dealing with; questions for understanding; seeing, through each other’s eyes
  • Procrastinating
  • Pull versus push
  • Purpose, of goals, thinking about

Q

  • Quicken Loans

R

  • Radar scan
  • Real estate business
  • Realignment
  • Reality: being blind to; of cycles; grounded in, importance of; guided by; hard-core; losing track of; negative, making a; that you want to live in; wisdom based on See also Authenticity; Consciousness
  • Real-time execution: alignment resulting from; aspects of, described; benefits of; Brink’s illustration of; and claiming your territory; and closing with command; defined; elements critical to; fluidity of; getting better at achieving, means of; important markers in; key ideas about; and knowing when to stick it out and when to walk away; master of; moving into new territory in, developing strategies for; overview of; pivoting in; processes resulting in; requirements for; sustaining, means of; targeting and tracking in; at work
  • Realtree (company)
  • Realtree Outdoors (television show)
  • Redford, Robert
  • Reflection
  • Reflexive response, natural
  • Relationships: building; defined by authenticity; establishing authentic; fake, attempting to leverage; investing in, takeaway on; lies weakening; strong, action that maintains; trust-based; visualizing the players and See also Alliances
  • Respect
  • Responsibility, taking
  • Revenge, need for
  • Review: daily; season to regroup and
  • Revolution, flow of
  • Rhythm, living in See also Flow
  • Risks: calculating; investment; keeping informed of; in not being agile; of running out of time and energy; timely and well-calculated
  • Rock Gaming
  • Roles
  • Ruth, Babe

S

  • Sadness
  • Safeguards
  • Schiefelbein, Jim
  • Scott, Susan
  • Scout: being present as the; benefits from being a; flipping from Judge to; maintaining strong relationships as the; observing as the; tracking peak activity periods as the
  • Scouting: for data; necessary, for ending alliances; a new path; ongoing; out vulnerabilities, questions for; role of, in consciousness; seasonal approach to; takeaways on; time spent; types of
  • Seasons. See Cycles and seasons
  • Senses, tapping into your
  • Shame
  • Short-term goals, drivers of See also Desired Outcomes (DO)
  • “Should be” illusions
  • Shutting up
  • Sighting the target
  • Silence
  • Size, of goals, thinking about
  • Skills and capabilities: alignment with; believing in your; confidence in, of allies; leveraging; staying honest about; testing and growing your
  • Sloppiness
  • Small Business Administration
  • Solutions: finding, moving forward after; focused on finding, and taking action
  • Spirituality
  • Stalling
  • Staples
  • Stealth
  • Stewardship
  • Strategic choices, considering potential consequences of
  • Strategy: exit, having an; learning; losing, sticking too long with a, result of; for moving into new territory, developing a; observation-based; for presenting Desired Outcomes, having a, importance of; pulling together your own, data for; seasonal approach to; seeing the tactical steps for waging your; for setting your Leverage Jet Stream in motion
  • Strengths: building; connecting data to current; identifying existing product; leveraging; owning your; playing to your; pooling; testing and growing your; understanding your
  • Success: elements for, availability of; meaning of; potential, pulling in more; someone else’s, learning from
  • Sundance Institute
  • Suspicion, handling

T

  • Talent, leveraging
  • Targeting: benefit of; every action; lack of clarity in; ongoing; in real-time execution; visualization of
  • Targets: bull’s-eye of, hitting, precision and clarity for; having absolute clarity about; lack of clear; marking your; missing; outcomes that form; recalibrating approach to, reasons for; sighting your; spotting, opportunities for; tangled up; unnecessary missed, avoiding See also Desired outcomes (DO)
  • Teams. See Alliances
  • Technological advancements, effect of
  • Template, creating a
  • Territory: elements for success in our; same, hunting the; taking command of any, examples of; understanding of the; unscouted See also Native territory; New territory; Scouting
  • Thoughts, negative. See Negativity
  • Tiered leverage
  • Time: guarding your; investment of, in building alliances; to pivot, knowing the, elements in; to regroup and review; running out of, risk of; saving; for taking care of essential groundwork; thoughts for guiding choices about spending; wasting
  • Time-outs
  • Timing
  • Tough conversations
  • Towbes, Michael
  • Tracking: benefit of; essential tool for; ongoing; of peak activity periods; position to start; in real-time execution; staying on track while
  • Training See also Weight-training
  • Transition, fluid, allowing for a
  • Transparency
  • Traps. See Ego; Fear
  • Trends: knowing the; scouting for; staying ahead of
  • Trigger-happy behavior, avoiding
  • Trophies: outcomes that form; taking, key to; walking away without See also Desired Outcomes (DO)
  • True Hunters: benefits from being; defined; examples of; honing abilities to become; spiritual basis of; successful, way of; who can benefit from being See also Authenticity; Consciousness; Flow; Leverage; Real-time execution
  • Trust
  • Truthfulness. See Honesty
  • Turner, Travis “T-Bone,”
  • Tweaks

U

  • Ultimate goals: alignment of; identifying; as safeguards
  • Unique nature: exploiting your; owning your; seeing someone else’s; understanding and leveraging your See also Authentic nature

V

  • VA (Void Analysis) programs
  • Valpak
  • Variables, covering
  • Vetting strategies
  • Victim role
  • Viewpoint, elevated, gaining an
  • Villain role
  • Virgin Group
  • Vision: confidence in your; embedding your, in your consciousness; long-term, having; new, following a, approach to; unemotional
  • Visualization: of the closing moments; of how actions will play out; hunter’s embracing (chap.1); leveraging; power of; role of, in consciousness; takeaways on; tool for, using a; as training the mind
  • Vulnerabilities. See Weaknesses

W

  • Waddell, Michael See also Bone Collector Brotherhood
  • Waiting, deciding between pivoting or
  • “Walk the talk,”
  • Walmart
  • Weaknesses: exposing your; in the final stretch; identifying areas of; identifying existing product; leveraging; minimizing; other people’s, uncovering; owning your; playing to your; scouting out, questions for; in strategy, uncovering; understanding your
  • Weight-training
  • Wendy’s
  • Whisner, Mac
  • Wild Kingdom (television show)
  • Willing the win
  • Winning on your own terms
  • Wisdom: allowing emotion to override; conventional/common; open to See also Hunter’s Wisdom
  • World Hunting Association (WHA), experience of, learning from the
  • World stewardship

Y

  • YouTube

Z

  • Zen-like control