| # | Title | Further Reading | LTYM # | Moral | Year | Created | Modified | Place | DocType | Ready? | Gender | Category | Questions | | |
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| 0.1 | Title Page | | | | | 02/02/2021 | 01/03/2023 | | Story | Yes | Male | Preface | Questions | 1.1 | |
| 0.2 | Copyright | | | | | 02/03/2021 | 01/03/2023 | | Story | Yes | Male | Preface | Questions | 1.2 | |
| 0.4 | Chronology | | | Every story has a setting | | 12/09/2018 | 01/05/2023 | | Story | No | Reader | Preface | | 1.3 | |
| 0.5 | Introduction | | | | 2006 | 06/19/2011 | 01/03/2023 | | Story | Yes | Reader | Preface | | 1.4 | |
| 0.6 | Cast of Characters | | | Every story has a character or two | 2016 | 11/28/2016 | 01/05/2023 | Lisbon | Story | Yes | Reader | Preface | | 1.5 | |
| 1 | First Impressions | | | First impressions are lasting | 1967 | 11/20/2016 | 02/13/2023 | Smithtown | Story | Yes | Male | People Mgmt | 1) Was the teacher excessive in his approach to the first day? Wh | 1.6 | |
| 5 | Assemble the Components | | | Assembly is easier and faster than creating from scratch | 1978 | 02/27/2006 | 10/19/2023 | FBC | Story | Yes | Male | Project Mgmt | 1) How can you break large problems into smaller parts? 2) In wha | 1.7 | |
| 6 | Leave your Signature | | | Style matters; leave your signature | 1979 | 02/27/2006 | 10/19/2023 | FBC | Story | Yes | Male | Change Mgmt,People Mgmt,Quality | 1) What elements of style have you left imprinted on your work? O | 1.8 | |
| 9 | The Lego's Lesson | | | Leadership is situational | 1981 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | IDC | Story | Yes | Female | Leadership,People Mgmt,Training | 1) What experiences can you point to where deadlines impacted the | 1.9 | |
| 10 | The Conservation of Typing | | | Don't forget that computing is about taking work out of the system! | 1982 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | IDC | Story | Yes | Male | Project Mgmt | 1) How can you take work out of your latest project? 2) What piec | 1.10 | |
| 11 | Letting Go | | | Delegating means delegating ownership and letting go | 1982 | 10/07/2018 | 03/01/2023 | IDC | Story | Yes | Male | People Mgmt | 1) If you know the answers, how do you communicate criticism? (hi | 1.11 | |
| 12 | What's the Next Step? | | | People work harder, and take pride in, achieving new levels, even if "in place" | 1983 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | IDC | Story | Yes | Female | People Mgmt | 1) What are the ways to avoid the feeling of stagnating, dead-end | 1.12 | |
| 14 | The Wine Bet | | | An audacious goal is powerful | 1985 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | IDC | Story | Yes | Male | People Mgmt | 1) When are the times your team rose to the challenge of an audac | 1.13 | |
| 15 | Counting the Simple | | | Increasing client contact with good, helpful people, increases sales | 1985 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | IDC | Story | Yes | Female | Measurement | 1) What metrics do you use to track success? 2) How do theses mea | 1.14 | |
| 16 | Taking the Wrong Job | | | Doing something you don't like to do is not a way to move up | 1986 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | IDC | Story | Yes | Female | People Mgmt | 1) What parts of your job do you like the most? the least? 2) Wha | 1.15 | |
| 17 | How to Work for a Sonofabitch | | | Figuratively go around to other's side of the table and get angry at the problem facing us, rather than each other. | 1987 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | DBC | Story | Yes | Male | People Mgmt | 1) What bothers you about this story? What resonates? 2) What are | 1.16 | |
| 18 | Seven Hundred Names, One at a Time | | | Great service is a relationship and its personal | 1987 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | Home | Story | Yes | Female | Service | 1) What businesses have made you feel valued? What did they do th | 1.17 | |
| 19 | Service Legends II | | | Excellent service is legendary | 1987 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | Home | Story | Yes | Female | Service | 1) What service stories have you told others about three or more | 1.18 | |
| 20 | The End of Coding | | | Feature freeze, or the point at which all required features has been added to the system, is the mid-point of the development cycle, not the end-point | 1987 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | DBC | Story | Yes | Female | Project Mgmt | 1) What are the steps required to launch new software in your org | 1.19 | |
| 21 | The Catered Lunch | | | Team selected awards can be simple, inexpensive and powerful | 1989 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | DBC | Story | Yes | Female | People Mgmt | 1) Would your organization allow such an award? Would you ask, or | 1.20 | |
| 23 | Hire Somebody, Fire Somebody And Reorganize Somebody | | | A new manager has a license to change; use it quickly | 1991 | 01/03/2023 | 01/05/2023 | DBC | Story | Yes | Male | People Mgmt | 1) Was the Chevron president's approach excessive? Why or why not | 1.21 | |
| 24 | Rallying The Team To Die | | | Teams can rally even to die | 1991 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | DBC | Story | Yes | Female | People Mgmt,Downsizing | 1) Is reframing a bad situation "white-washing" it or an opportun | 1.22 | |
| 25 | The Case of the Serial Numbers | | | Pay attention to what doesn't feel right | 1991 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | DBC | Story | Yes | Male | Values,Ethics | 1) When you discover something that doesn't feel right in your or | 1.23 | |
| 26 | The Perfect Storm | | | 1) Back-up is only as good as the weakest link; 2) Insurance is something you buy before the disaster. | 1991 | 02/27/2006 | 01/25/2024 | Shark | Story | Yes | Male | Operations Mgmt,Crisis Mgmt | 1) What is the weakest link in your computer systems? Are there a | 1.24 | |
| 27 | No Problem Identification Without Recommendation | | | No problem identification without recommendation | 1992 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | Shark | Story | Yes | Female | People Mgmt | 1) What complain mode script have you heard regularly? 2) How wou | 1.25 | |
| 28 | Tell Me Three Things | | | A problem is a learning experience | 1992 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | Shark | Story | Yes | Female | People Mgmt | 1) What is the attitude in your team when problems occur? 2) What | 1.26 | |
| 31 | Beating the High Score | | | Knowing what the prior team's score is makes an outstanding achievement possible | 1994 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | HPMD | Story | Yes | Female | Measurement,Operations Mgmt | 1) What are your teams top 3 indicators? 2) Does your team know w | 1.27 | |
| 32 | Doing a Hundred Little Things Significantly Well | | | Service is about doing 100 little things significantly well | 1994 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | HPMD | Story | Yes | Female | Service | 1) What are the best service encounters you have had? 2) Break it | 1.28 | |
| 34 | Ping Pong Thinking | | | Iterative thinking builds an idea | 1995 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | HPMD | Story | Yes | Male | Communication | 1) When have you had a discussion that rapidly builds ideas? Is i | 1.29 | |