Number 1. Hiring is motivation, or it's less work to get 100 percent improvement than 10 percent improvement -- Number 2. You can change people, or you can change people -- Number 3. The first step to finding star employees is believing that they exist, or how to make the playing field as un-level as possible -- Number 4. You can lead an employee to water, but if you find one who knows a better path to the water, shut up and get a bucket -- Number 5. Those aren't employees (or friends, enemies, family, or students) - those are allies -- Number 6. Those aren't former employees - those are graduates -- Number 7. You never get rid of anyone -- Number 8. It's not closure that's needed - it's aperture -- Number 9. How two allies (a great employee and a gifted boss) find each other -- Number 10. Assume the best, part I : the art of being a true ally -- Number 11. Assume that the best employees always know -- Number 12. What's a great employee worth? -- Number 13. Replacing people is so hard for most bosses that they don't do enough of it -- Number 14. You are becoming your coworkers -- Number 15. A meeting moves at the pace of the slowest mind in the room -- Number 16. Firing takes guts - de-hiring requires heart -- Number 17. Assume the best, part II : the genius lurking inside -- Number 18. The my-situation-is-different myth : de-hiring works in any type of business or industry, even government -- Number 19. Intelligent failing -- Number 20. You can't buy love from fired employees -- Number 21. From set-up-to-fail to set-up-to-be-a-hero -- Number 22. You aren't just changing employees - you're changing lives -- Number 23. Lessons from a master of the art of de-hiring -- Number 24. You can take credit, but you can't give it away -- Number 25. Effortless leadership, part I : no one wants to be managed, so stop doing it -- Number 26. Effortless leadership, part II : management by asking questions -- Number 27. Effortless leadership, part III : the one who manages least, manages best -- Number 28. Effortless leadership, part IV : winning versus working -- Number 29. Guess what kind of employee is attracted to average pay? -- Number 30. Never bet on employees who don't want to bet on themselves -- Number 31. What's the score? : or how to go from shooting around to playing to win -- Number 32. You get what you pay for : what employees believe they get paid for, not what you thought you were paying for -- Number 33. When the inspired culture takes over the hiring and de-hiring -- Number 34. Hiring is more important than sales -- Number 35. The hiring pipeline : the best selection process in the world is only capable of picking the best person in the competition -- Number 36. Contrarian hiring, part I : the underground talent market -- Number 37. If you're feeling insulted right about now -- Number 38. Contrarian hiring, part II : finding unusual people in the usual places -- Number 39. Contrarian hiring, part III : the action interview -- Number 40. Contrarian hiring, part IV : it's not just a job - it's a break -- Number 41. Contrarian hiring, part V : hunting for new talent pools and/or doing pool construction -- Number 42. Being worthy of the best talent : in the long run, you get the employees you deserve -- Number 43. If you want great performances, you have to provide a great audience -- Number 44. If you don't have a great story, you don't have great employees or a WOMPing good place to work -- Number 45. The unspoken assumption of bad management and bad marketing -- Number 46. The team makes the stars while the stars make the team -- Number 47. Your work is only part of your job -- Number 48. Leading via happiness.