Kindle Edition Download to your Nook (eBook) Amazon Barnes & Noble.com BK Connection Category:  Business/Investing Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers ISBN-10:  1576755010 Type: Non-Fiction Pages: 208 Copyright: September 12, 2008 ISBN-13: 9781576755013 Price: $15.49 (eBook) "Courage Goes to Work" is for every manager who has ever struggled with how to get their employees to have more backbone. Bill Treasurer, top courage-building consultant and former professional high-diver (see video above), shares his wisdom on bringing courage to the workplace. Courage Goes to Work is 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. When courage goes to work, workers they take on more challenging or complex projects. When courage goes to work people actively seek out tasks that stretched their skills and capabilities. When courage goes to work speak up more frequently, forcefully, and truthfully. When courage goes to work people say “yes” to company changes with more enthusiasm. When courage goes to work people are less risk-averse, less self-conscious, and less apathetic. And when courage goes to work, people do less brownnosing, ass-covering, and complaining. This book is all about helping people bring their courage to work. Courage Goes to Work offers a way of categorizing courageous acts in “buckets.” These courage buckets are: TRY Courage: The courage of "first attempts." This is the courage that is needed when attempting something for the first time, or re-attempting something after a significant failure. TRUST Courage: Whereas TRY Courage involves taking action, TRUST Courage involves “letting go.” This is the courage involved when delegating, following someone’s lead, or keeping someone’s confidences. TELL Courage: This is the courage of “voice,” and is associated with assertiveness, truth telling, and fessing up when mistakes are made.

Brian Tracy, author of Eat that Frog!
"Fear and doubt are the two greatest enemies of high performance in the workplace. This powerful book shows you how to instill more and more courage and confidence in every person, releasing personal potential you didn't know you had available."

Joe Forehand, retired Chairman and CEO, Accenture
"Bill Treasurer gives any aspiring leader a practical guide on how to develop the courage that is needed to make an organization a winner...Courage Goes to Work gives us the conviction that ordinary individuals can achieve extraordinary results."

Tom Bell, chief strategy officer, First Data
"Great companies have bold strategies. But bold strategies have to be implemented by courageous people. Courage Goes to Work offers valuable ideas for boosting workforce performance by building people's courage. This is top-shelf management reading with bottom-line implications."