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Index
Cover
Contents
Title
Copyright
Prologue
Dedication
Chapter 1: Send them Home
Following the Natural Path, or how did I get to the point of selling?
The Fear Factor
Promises, Promises
Listen to your gut
Know when to take a Break: Even a walk around the block
Forks in the Road
Risky Business
What About the Money?
Redefining Shareholder Value
Why write this Book?
Chapter 2: The Epiphany Ride
From Mom’s Kitchen to Launch
Just Try It!
From Garage to RV
Don’t kill the Lawyers
Riding the Wave
The Clif Spirit
Growing Pains
Beginning to Drift
Shooting for the Luna
Almost Selling
The Walk
Chapter 3: A Drifting Boat
The End of a Fifty-Fifty Partnership
Back on Stage
Turning the Company Around
Clif Joy
Clif’s Mojo
Moving to Sustainability—Reducing our Ecological Footprint
Living in the Gray—Creating a Culture of Questioning
Swimming with the big Fish
We’re Back
Epiphany Revisited
Chapter 4: White Road / Red Road
The Right Maps
Finding the White Roads
It’s About the Destination: A Company on the Red Road
The fun of getting there is getting there: A Company on the White Road
The Right Maps Revisited
Simplicity
Your Shoes have to fit in the pack: Traveling Light
The Guided Trip
Changing Course
White-Road Surprises
Speed
Hypothermia and Knowing Exactly what to do
Keeping your tools in shape
Send that Telegram
Pushing Hard and Loving It
Facts not Fiction, or, I never Golfed with Arnold Palmer
Finding a route where there isn’t one
Leap of Faith
Chapter 5: Tales from the Road
Lesson One: Teamwork—My Cinderella Story
Lesson Two: Have the time of your life
Lesson Three: Maintain Composure, or, Darth Vader’s Revenge
Lesson Four: On Ice, shaken but not Stirred
Lesson Five: Prosciutto and Vino
Lesson Six: Know Nothing
Lesson Seven: Cause and Effect
Lesson Eight: Make a Mutant Design
Lesson Nine: Break from the Front
A Love Story with no Apparent Business Point
Chapter 6: Solo Climbing
Alpine Versus Expeditionary Climbing
How to lose your company without really Trying—Ownership Options
First Ascents: The Entrepreneur’s Route
How to save your Company—Staying Private and Keeping 100 Percent Ownership
How to keep your Company—Succession, or don’t kill the Estate Planners
Chapter 7: Sustaining our Living Company
First Aspiration: Sustaining our Brands—Keeping our Mojo
Second Aspiration Sustaining our Business—Living within our Means
Third Aspiration Sustaining our People—Live Life to its Fullest
Fourth Aspiration Sustaining our Community—Giving Back
Fifth Aspiration Sustaining the Planet–Reducing our Ecological Footprint
Stewarding the Clif Ecosystem
Chapter 8: Moments of Magic
Ensemble Playing
Listening
Spaces and Silences—Pushing the Edge
Imperfection
On Stage
Magic Moments
Improvisation: Freedom and Form
Jazz—The Soul of our Business Model
Epilogue: The Nature of Things
Appendix
Resources
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Authors
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