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Welcome, Tatjana Kiel 7 Foreword, Bill McDermott: Fight, Fall, and Rise 9 What a Fight! 13

Part I Challenges Are the Air that We Breathe 1. How It All Began 17 2. Ergo sum: I Know Who I Am 31 3. I Am not a Dummy, I Can Walk by Myself 61 4. Knowledge Grows if We Share It 78

Part II My Twelve Ways to Respond to Challenges Way 1: Enabling and Using Coopetition 95 Way 2: Thinking Progressively and Acting Courageously 97 Way 3: Learning from Defeats to Create New Potential 99 Way 4: Making Use of Your Successes and Letting Others Partake in Them 101 Way 5: Planning Long-Term and Continuously Demonstrating Performance 103 Way 6: Using Rest Periods to Reflect 105 Way 7: Focusing on the Essentials 107 Way 8: Trusting Your Own Competences 109 Way 9: Identifying Potential and Harnessing It 111 Way 10: Explosively Releasing Top Performance 113 Way 11: Creating Organizational Structures 115 Way 12: Knowing and Using Your Opponent's Strengths and Weaknesses 117

Part III How Experts Use Challenge Management Practically Way 1: Coopetition, Frank Dopheide 121 Way 2: Progressivity, Alyssa Jade McDonald-Bärtl 127 Way 3: Defeats, Rolf Schumann 134 Way 4: Successes, Ibrahim Evsan 141 Way 5: Planning and Performance, Christian Seifert 147 Way 6: Reflection, Miriam Goos 154 Way 7: Essentials, Jens Schmelzle 160 Way 8: Competences, Jean-Remy von Matt 166 Way 9: Potential, Leopold Hoesch 172 Way 10: Top Performance, Mathias Ulmann 179 Way 11: Organizational Structures, Astrid Schulte 185 Way 12: Strengths and Weaknesses, Torsten Bittlingmaier 192

Epilogue, Arnold Schwarzenegger: Don't Listen to the Naysayers! 199 Acknowledgments 203 Index 205