Idea Agent

COURAGE

To live leadership with integrity and to follow the inner guidance of your values and principles is to live at risk. For most leaders the day-to-day life can lead to fear as they make big bets on new approaches, take unpopular stands, or say no to a boss, a customer, or an employee. Leaders who do not experience it this way have either learned to remain centered through deep awareness or are not pushing themselves beyond a safe comfort zone and are thus avoiding risk—and missing great opportunities. If not faced, these activity-related fears are reflected in an approach that holds leaders back from decisive action in the face of ambiguity, from sharing their vision and ultimately from choosing values over their self-interest—an approach ...