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

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

by Bill Treasurer

Berrett-koehler | October 1, 2008 | Hardcover

Courage Goes to Work has practical ideas and approaches for every manager who has ever struggled with how to encourage employees to develop and show 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. When each and every worker goes to work each day with more courage, the capacity of the entire organization to be courageous is enlarged. The problem is that too many workers are too comfortable, too afraid, or too much of both. Courage Goes to Work helps managers address the problem of workers who are "comfeartable." Comfeartable workers don''t exert themselves anymore than they have to. They equate "just enough" with good enough, and are satisfied meeting only a minimum standard of performance. Like a sofa loaded down with overstuffed relatives after a holiday dinner, teams of comfeartable workers become lethargic and are heavy with the weight of mediocrity. This book proposes that a manager''s success, happiness and longevity depend on how he or she deals with comfeartable workers. The antidote to comfeartableness, as this book explains, is courage. This book is all about helping people bring their courage to work.

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Courage Goes to Work has practical ideas and approaches for every manager who has ever struggled with how to encourage employees to develop and show 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. When each and every worker goes to work each day with more courage, the capacity of the entire organization to be courageous is enlarged. The problem is that too many workers are too comfortable, too afraid, or too much of both. Courage Goes to Work helps managers address the problem of workers who are "comfeartable." Comfeartable workers don''t exert themselves anymore than they have to. They equate "just enough" with good enough, and are satisfied meeting only a minimum standard of performance. Like a sofa loaded down with overstuffed relatives after a holiday dinner, teams of comfeartable workers become lethargic and are heavy with the weight of mediocrity. This book proposes that a manager''s success, happiness and longevity depend on how he or she deals with comfeartable workers. The antidote to comfeartableness, as this book explains, is courage. This book is all about helping people bring their courage to work.

About the Author

BILL TREASURER (Asheville, North Carolina) is founder and Chief Encourager at Giant Leap Consulting (GLC), a Courage Building company that exists to help people and organizations live more courageously. He is the author of Right Risk and the editor of POSITIVELY M.A.D.

Hardcover

216 Pages, 5.86 x 8.53 x 0.45 in

October 1, 2008

Berrett-koehler

English


1576755010
9781576755013

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