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title	:	The Fearless Executive : Finding the Courage to Trust Your Talents and Be the Leader You Are Meant to Be
author	:	Downs, Alan.
publisher	:	AMACOM Books
isbn10 | asin	:	0814405657
print isbn13	:	9780814405659
ebook isbn13	:	9780585202259
language	:	English
subject	Executives, Executive ability.
publication date	:	2000
lcc	:	HD38.2.D68 2000eb
ddc	:	658.4
subject	:	Executives, Executive ability.

Page iii The Fearless Executive Finding the Courage to Trust Your Talents and Be the Leader You Are Meant to Be Alan Downs

Page iv Special discounts on bulk quantities of AMACOM books are available to corporations, professional associations, and other organizations. For details, contact Special Sales Department, AMACOM, a division of American Management Association, 1601 Broadway, New York, NY 10019. Tel.: 212-903-8316 Fax: 212-903-8083 Web site: www.amanet.org This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering legal, accounting, or other professional service. If legal advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional person should be sought. The CIP data is available through the Cataloging-in-Publication division of the Library of Congress. 2000 Alan Downs. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. This publication may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in whole or in part, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of AMACOM, a division of American Management Association, 1601 Broadway, New York, NY 10019. Printing number 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Page v In memory of Horace Moody Downs whose life taught us there is nothing to fear.

Page vii CONTENTS Preface ix One Ignite Your Passion, Follow Your Talent 1 Part One Breaking the Cycle of Fear Two Fear Chokes Your Talent 9 Fear Susceptibility Inventory 26 Three Fear of Inadequacy: What If I Fail? 33 Four Fear of Rejection: What If I Don't Make It to the Inner Circle? 48 Five Fear of Scarcity: What If Someone Else Steals My Piece of the Action? 67 Six Fear of Reality: Isn't There a Quick Fix? 79 Seven Fear of the Unknown: What Is Lurking Out There? 90 Eight Fear of Authority: What If I Break the Rules? 100 Nine Fear of Aging: What If I'm Obsolete? 108 Part Two Talent: Your Strongest Suit Ten Talent Is the DNA of Your Destiny 117 Eleven Discovering Your Talent 125 Twelve Stop Trying to Fix Yourself 134

Page viii Part Three Possessed by Passion Thirteen What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Joint Like This? 145 Fourteen Remind Me, What Does Passion Look Like? 156 Fifteen What Color Is Your Passion? 164 Part Four Action Is the Antidote to Fear Sixteen How to Get Lucky 173 Seventeen What's Stopping You? 179 Part Five Forged in the Fire: The Passages of a Fearless Executive Eighteen Passage One: Every Executive Starts in the Mailroom 185 Nineteen Passage Two: Proving Ground 189 Twenty Passage Three: The Fearless Executive 196 Index 209

Page ix PREFACE In 1992 I was a human resources executive with one of the premiere retailing companies in the country, Dayton Hudson. Some years before that I earned a Ph.D. in organizational psychology and paid my dues working up the corporate ladder at Hewlett-Packard. I was earning a six-figure salary, living on a hillside in San Francisco, and spending every weekend at a lovely home in the Napa Valley.

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