A practical pathway to a meaningful life and courageous leadership
In The Courage Playbook: Five Steps to Overcome Your Fears and Become Your Best Self, Gus Lee, bestselling author and leadership expert, delivers an astonishing reveal that with moral courage, we can overcome our fears. This is a practical guide to gaining your courage to live rightly, treat others without bias and lead inspirationally. Readers will acquire Five Steps to Courage, 3 NO’s, 3 GO’s and Courageous Communication Plays. These lend deeper meaning to life, strengthen our character, improve relationships and allow us to help others for the common good. They lead to contentment, love and even happiness.
The Playbook is a practical, behavior-based “Other-Help” guide that equips us more effectively than the worried “self-help” approach. The Courage Playbook includes: - Skills and strategies for healthfully and authentically deploying courage in your life - Ways to actually solve tough moral problems and conflicts at their root cause, genuinely help others, model strength and close the “Courage Gap” - Methods for courageous and inspirational communication and leadership for all manner of situations - professionally, personally, relationally and organizationally
Designed for people in all circumstances, to include young professionals, executives and leaders, The Courage Playbook belongs on the desks and libraries of business organizations, government agencies, healthcare, education, non-profits, military units, public safety organizations and on the bedside table of all people who want a seriously effective pathway to deeply improve themselves.
In The Courage Playbook: Five Steps to Overcome Your Fears and Become Your Best Self, Gus Lee, bestselling author and leadership expert, delivers an astonishing reveal that with moral courage, we can overcome our fears. This is a practical guide to gaining your courage to live rightly, treat others without bias and lead inspirationally. Readers will acquire Five Steps to Courage, 3 NO’s, 3 GO’s and Courageous Communication Plays. These lend deeper meaning to life, strengthen our character, improve relationships and allow us to help others for the common good. They lead to contentment, love and even happiness.
The Playbook is a practical, behavior-based “Other-Help” guide that equips us more effectively than the worried “self-help” approach. The Courage Playbook includes: - Skills and strategies for healthfully and authentically deploying courage in your life - Ways to actually solve tough moral problems and conflicts at their root cause, genuinely help others, model strength and close the “Courage Gap” - Methods for courageous and inspirational communication and leadership for all manner of situations - professionally, personally, relationally and organizationally
Designed for people in all circumstances, to include young professionals, executives and leaders, The Courage Playbook belongs on the desks and libraries of business organizations, government agencies, healthcare, education, non-profits, military units, public safety organizations and on the bedside table of all people who want a seriously effective pathway to deeply improve themselves.
Table of Contents
Foreword xv
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction 1
Part I The Courageous Self 13
Chapter 1 Step One: Where Am I? I Assess Myself 15
Chapter 2 Step Two: Who Am I, Really? I Admit and Quit the 3 NOs 39
Chapter 3 Step Three: Getting It Right - The 3 GOs 73
Part II Courage with Others 121
Chapter 4 Step Four: Playsets for Basic CourCom 123
Chapter 5 Step Five: Playsets for CourCom Conflicts 147
Part III You Decide: Choosing Your Core 189
Chapter 6 Your Identity: Naming, Claiming, and Aiming 193
Chapter 7 The Individual Courage Advancement Plan: ICAP 197
Chapter 8 Crossing the River 209
Epilogue 217
Appendix: Cut-out Memory Cards 219
Notes 223
Glossary of Acronyms 245
About the Author 247
Index 249
