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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter1: When Work Holds No Passion
- Not All Who Wander Are Lost
- What Happens After a Wrong Trun
- Answering the Call
- A Matter of Perspective
- Self-doubt Guards the Treasure
- Taking on Your Passion Challenge
Chapter 2: When the Pressure Threatens to Overwhelm
- Moving to the Front Seat
- Opening Night with a New Script
- Without Limits
- Drawing the Line
- The Tipping Point
- Taking on Your Pressure Challenge
Chapter 3: When Your Mistake Feels Colossal
- Promising the Impossible
- Caught in the Headlights
- The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow
- Recovering from a Whopper
- The Day it Hit the Fan
- Still Standing
- Taking on Your Mistake Challenge
Chapter 4: When Your Performance Review Whacks You
- It's Not Funny
- I'm OK, You're OK, Too
- You're on Your Own, Kid
- The Gift of Unfairness
- The Brutal Facts
- With a Little Help from My Friends
- Taking On Your Review Challenge
Chapter 5: When People Don't Come on Board
- Fish Out of Water
- Winning Over the Skeptics
- In His Shoes
- Listening Like You Mean It
- Sharing the Burden
- Taking On Your People Challenge, Part I
Chapter 6: When You're Working with an Office Villain
- The Ass Who Threw a Tantrum
- The 24/7 Critic
- The Mean Girl Interfered
- The Monster Who Blew Things Up
- The Boss with a Bad Rap
- Taking On Your People Challenge, Part II
Chapter 7: When You Need a Sponsor
- But for the Love of Mentors and Sponsors
- The Sponsor Cultivator
- Will You Be My Rabbi?
- Breaking Up is Hard to Do
- Between a Rock and a Hard Place
- It Takes One to Know One
- Taking on Your Sponsor Challenge
Chapter 8: When You Dare to Challenge
- At a Loss for Words
- Shattering Career-Limiting Silence
- Standing Up for Yourself
- The Rewards of Independence
- Standing Out from the Crowd
- Taking On Your Leadership
Chapter 9: When Risk-Taking Feels Like Jumping Off a Cliff
- Heading Gladly into the Unknown
- After the Fall
- Living and Working in Technicolor
- A Fighter and an Underdog Walk into a Bar
- Failing for a Living
- Taking on Your Risk Challenge
Chapter 10: When You Have to Be a Superhero
- The Quiet Hero
- The Brave Leader
- The Cowboy Sheriff
- The Change Agent from Down Under
- The Demon Slayer
- Taking On Your Superhero Challenge
Chapter 11: When Everything Sucks
- Preparing for the Day
- A Simple Twist of Fate
- Putting Out the Fires
- Bringing Your A-Game to Plan B
- Escaping the Black Hole
- Taking On Your Suck Challenge
Chapter 12: When Work Doesn't Feel Worth It
- Should I Stay or Should I Go
- Stuck on Perma Hold
- Breaking the Cycle
- Waking Up
- Time to Go
- Taking on Your Work Challenge
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