67 Butch Harmon, the renowned coach: Callahan, In Search of Tiger, 75.
68 With this in mind, Tiger’s dad: Ibid., 237.
69 “I know my game”: Ibid., 219.
70 “I love working on shots”: Ibid., 300.
71 “He’s twelve”: Ibid., 23.
72 Mark O’Meara, Woods’s golf partner: Ibid., 25.
73 For example, when he didn’t: McEnroe, You Cannot Be Serious, 166.
74 In fact, rather than combating: Ibid., 29.
75 He wished someone else: Ibid., 207.
76 “The system letme get away”: Ibid., 190.
77 “In our society”: Lowe, Michael Jordan Speaks, 37.
78 Coach John Wooden claims: Wooden, Wooden, 113.
79 “I believe, for example”: Ibid., 78.
80 When asked before a game: Charlie Nobles, “Johnson Is Gone, So Bucs, Move On,” The New York Times, November 20, 2003; Dave Anderson, “Regarding Johnson, Jets Should Just Say No,” The New York Times, November 21, 2003.
81 “I am a team player, but”: Anderson, “Regarding Johnson.”
82 When Nyad hatched her plan: Kersey, Unstoppable, 212.
83 Iciss Tillis is a college: Viv Bernstein, “The Picture Doesn’t Tell the Story,” The New York Times, January 24, 2004.
84 It’s six-foot-three Candace Parker: Ira Berkow, “Stardom Awaits a Prodigy and Assist Goes to Her Father,” The New York Times, January 20, 2004.
CHAPTER 5. BUSINESS: MINDSET AND LEADERSHIP 1 According to Malcolm Gladwell: Malcolm Gladwell, “The Talent Myth,” The New Yorker, July 22, 2002.
2 Remember the study where we interviewed: That study was performed with Ying-yi Hong, C. Y. Chiu, Derek Lin, and Wendy Wan.
3 And remember how we put students: This research was conducted with Claudia Mueller.
4 Jim Collins set out to discover: Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (New York: HarperCollins, 2001).
5 “They used to call me the prosecutor”: Ibid., 75.
6 Robert Wood and Albert Bandura: Robert Wood and Albert Bandura, “Impact of Conceptions of Ability on Self-Regulatory Mechanisms and Complex Decision Making,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 56 (1989), 407–415.
7 As Collins puts it: Collins, Good to Great, 26.
8 Says Collins: The good-to-great Kroger: Ibid., 65–69.
9 According to James Surowiecki: James Surowiecki, “Blame Iacocca: How the Former Chrysler CEO Caused the Corporate Scandals,” Slate, July 24, 2002.
10 Warren Bennis, the leadership guru: Warren Bennis, On Becoming a Leader (Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 1989/2003), xxix.
11 Iacocca wasn’t like that: Lee Iacocca with William Novak, Iacocca: An Autobiography (New York: Bantam Books, 1984).
12 What’s more, “If Henry was king”: Ibid., 101.
13 “I was His Majesty’s special protege”: Ibid., 83.
14 “All of us … lived the good life”: Ibid., 101.
15 “I had always clung to the idea”: Ibid., 144.
16 He wondered whether Henry Ford: Doron P. Levin, Behind the Wheel at Chrysler: The Iacocca Legacy (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1995), 31.
17 “You don’t realize what a favor”: Ibid., 231.
18 Just a few years after: Iacocca, Iacocca, xvii.
19 Within a short time, however: Levin, Behind the Wheel at Chrysler.
20 In an editorial: Ibid., 312.
21 So in a bid: “Iacocca, Spurned in Return Attempts, Lashes Out,” USA Today, March 19, 2002.
22 Albert Dunlap saved dying companies: Albert J. Dunlap with Bob Andelman, Mean Business: How I Save Bad Companies and Make Good Companies Great (New York: Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 1996).
23 “Did I earn it?”: Ibid., 21.
24 “If you’re in business”: Ibid., 199.
25 A woman stood up and asked: Ibid., 62.
26 “Making my way in the world”: Ibid., 107–108.
27 “The most ridiculous term”: Ibid., 196.
28 “Eventually, I have gotten bored”: Ibid., 26.
29 Then in 1996: John A. Byrne, “How Al Dunlap Self-Destructed,” Business Week, July 6, 1998.
30 Ken Lay, the company’s founder: Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron (New York: Penguin Group, 2003).
31 Kinder was also the only person: Ibid., 92.
32 Even as Lay: Ibid., 89.
33 “Ron doesn’t get it”: Ibid., 69.
34 “Well, it’s so obvious”: Ibid., 233.
35 As McLean and Elkind report: Ibid., 40.
36 Said Amanda Martin, an Enron executive: Ibid., 121.
37 Resident geniuses almost brought down: Alec Klein, Stealing Time: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Collapse of AOL Time Warner (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003).
38 Speaking about AOL executives: Ibid., 171.
39 As Morgan McCall: Morgan W. McCall, High Flyers: Developing the Next Generation of Leaders (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1998), xiii. McCall also analyzes the effects on corporate culture of believing in natural talent instead of the potential to develop. “The message of High Flyers,” he says, “is that leadership ability can be learned, that creating a context that supports the development of talent can become a source of competitive advantage, and that velopment of leaders is itself a leadership responsibility,” xii.
40 Harvey Hornstein, an expert: Harvey A. Hornstein, Brutal Bosses and Their Prey (New York: Riverhead Books, 1996), 49.
41 Hornstein describes Paul Kazarian: Ibid., 10.
42 An engineer at a major aircraft: Ibid., 54.
43 In Good to Great, Collins notes: Jim Collins, Good to Great, 72.
44 According to Collins and Porras: James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras,
