Courage Goes to Work How to Build Backbones, Boost Performance, and Get Results

by Treasurer, Bill

• ISBN13: 9781576755013
• ISBN10: 1576755010
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-10-13
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Summary

Courage Goes to Work is for every manager who has ever struggled with how to get their employees to have more backbone. This book helps managers inspire their workers to move out of their comfort zones and harness their fears so they can step up to challenges more readily and embrace company changes more wholeheartedly. While other books have focused on different realms of courage, "Courage Goes to Work" is the first book to offer a way of breaking down courageous actions into 3 easy to understand groups, show the benefit of courage itself as a skill, and provide tools to embolden a manager's workforce.

Author Biography

Bill Treasurer is founder and chief encouragement officer at Giant Leap Consulting (www.giantleapconsulting.com), a courage-building company that helps people and organizations be more courageous. Among his clients are Accenture, CNN, EarthLink, SPANX, the Centers for Disease Control, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is the author of Right Risk and the chief editor of Positively M.A.D. Prior to founding Giant Leap, Treasurer was the captain of the U.S. High Diving Team and performed over 1,500 dives from heights that scaled to over 100 feet (sometimes on fire!).

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. v
Introduction: Too Much Comfort, Too Much Fear	p. 1
Setting a Foundation for Courage	p. 15
Look Before You Leap	p. 17
Jumping First	p. 31
Create Safety Nets	p. 41
Harness Fear	p. 57
Modulate Comfort	p. 67
Three Buckets of Courage	p. 81
Fillers and Spillers	p. 87
TRY Courage	p. 101
TRUST Courage	p. 125
TELL Courage	p. 143
Committing to Giant Leaps	p. 165
The Courageous Choice	p. 167
Courageous Living	p. 183
Acknowledgments	p. 193
Index	p. 195
About the Author	p. 205
About Giant Leap Consulting	p. 207
Visit the Courage Goes to Work Web Site	p. 208
Other books by Bill Treasurer	p. 208
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