By persistently rejecting traditional ideas and solutions and the traditional model of trade-offs implied by the “learn-earn-serve” model of personal development, Tierney demonstrates the skill of:

 
 
 
 
 
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By finding ways to move ever closer to achieving simultaneous four-way wins—actions that benefit work, home, community, and self, all at once—such as volunteering for the United Way early in his…

By challenging sexist institutional arrangements and investing time and energy to battle the forces that would repeal Title IX regulations designed to create parity for women’s sports, Julie Foudy…

Thinking of a skill you could teach to someone and offering to do so, or telling someone about a recent accomplishment and what you had to learn in order to succeed, serves to create opportunities for…

By forsaking more comfortable career paths to join the Navy so he could move beyond merely providing relief and to stay true to his belief that protection with force was a necessary complement to…

Exploring alternative means to achieving goals by changing a pattern of behavior that you already use, and then working to understand your fears about that change and the pros and cons of switching up…

When Tom Tierney, at the peak of his powers as CEO, chose to leave in the prime of his career and launch a small non-profit start-up he demonstrated the skill of:

Why were Tom Tierney, Sheryl Sandberg, Eric Greitens, Michelle Obama, Julie Foudy, and Bruce Springsteen selected as the six exemplars for this course?

When she worked to improve her family’s functioning by carving out private time to work out in the morning and, at the same time, compelling her husband to take some domestic responsibilities, Obama…

Selecting a one-hour time slot in which you will not use any technology—no internet, no smartphone, no electronic connectivity—and then considering how both you and others were affected by this…

Keeping a journal or log for a few days of any hypotheses that occur to you for new ways of getting things done, choosing one such idea to implement, and thinking about the assumptions about the way…

Listing the names of the three to five people who matter most to you in each domain of your life, describing one thing that you can do to provide some kind of help for some or all of these people or…

Springsteen’s pursuit of self-knowledge through counseling—and his public sharing about his journey—destigmatized counseling and opened doors for people, especially men, who might not otherwise seek…

Creating visual images of the connections among different strands of an idea in ways that allow you to look at a large amount of information about a subject on one page in a holistic way in order to…

By growing the Women of Silicon Valley gatherings into a community of friends, tech executives, venture capitalists, other mothers, book club friends, former colleagues, and family members, Sandberg…

By implementing creative strategies to pursue harmony between work and the rest of life, Sandberg demonstrates the skill of: