Courage: The Backbone Of Leadership

In Courage, Gus Lee captures the essential component of leadership in measurable behaviors. Using actual stories from Whirlpool, Kaiser Permanente, IntegWare, WorldCom and other organizations, Lee shows how highly successful executives face and overcome their fears to develop moral intelligence. These real-world examples offer practical lessons for rooting out unethical practices and behaviors by
Assessing them for rightness and integrity
Addressing moral failures
Following through with dialogue and direct action

Gus Lee is a best-selling author and nationally-recognized expert on leadership and ethics. He has been a successful lawyer, board member, and executive and is adjunct staff at the Center for Creative Leadership and the US Department of Justice. He graduated from West Point, and served as an army JAG attorney and paratrooper. He speaks frequently to a broad range of organizations and educational institutions including the Smithsonian, Bank of America, the FBI, Levi Strauss, MCI, Intel, Kaiser Permanente, Lucent, Whirlpool, West Point, USAF, the DEA, Harvard, Stanford, and UC Berkeley. He has also appeared on many major TV and radio shows.
His previous books include the best-selling novels China Boy (a New York Times Best Book selection now in its 17th printing), Honor and Duty, Tiger's Tail, and No Physical Evidence. He has also written a nonfiction book, Chasing Hepburn, and contributed to Time magazine, Encyclopedia Britannica, and other anthologies. Through his company, Integrenomics, he has created several assessments and skill-building tools about courage and character. He grew up in San Francisco and now lives in Colorado Springs.
Diane Elliott-Lee is a distinguished and award-winning clinical nurse specialist. She has helped edit Gus's five previous books and provided the guidance, inspiration, and structure for this book.

Introduction.
Part One: Backbone at the Point of Decision.
1. Chris’s Story.
2. Seeking Courageous Core Values.
3. Going Deeper (and Higher) into Values and Ethics.
4. Chris Boldly Moves Forward.
5. Coda: Applying Courageous Values at Whirlpool.
Part Two: Courage in Action.
6. Courageous Communication.
7. The Courageous Communication Model.
8. Courageous Feedback.
9. Courage by Example.
10. Courageous Leadership.
11. Three Acts of Courageous Leadership.
12. Courageous Problem Solving: The Black Box.
13. Using Courageous Communication from the Bottom Up.
Part Three: Growing Your Courage.
14. Everyday Habits That Build Courage.
15. Your Character Quotient.
16. The Courage to Change.
Notes.
Acknowledgments.
The Authors.
Index.