Choosing Courage, Jim Detert
Choosing Courage, Jim Detert
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Choosing Courage
The Everyday Guide to Being Brave at Work

Author: Jim Detert

Narrator: Steve Menasche

Unabridged: 8 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 05/18/2021

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

An inspirational, practical, and research-based guide for embracing risk and making a powerful impact at work.

Have you ever wanted to disagree with your boss in a meeting? Speak up about your company's lack of diversity or unequal pay practices? Make a tough decision that you know will be unpopular?

We all have opportunities to be courageous at work. But since courage requires risk—to our reputations, our social standing, and, in some cases, our jobs—we often fail to act, which leaves us feeling powerless and regretful for not doing what we know is right. There's a better way to work and live—and Choosing Courage provides the moral imperative and research-based tactics to help you make better use of your courageous instincts at work.

Doing for courage what Angela Duckworth has done for grit and Brene Brown for vulnerability, Jim Detert, the world's foremost expert on workplace courage, explains that courage isn't a character trait that only a few possess; it's a virtue developed through practice. And, with the right attitude and approach, you can learn to hone it like any other skill and incorporate it into your everyday life.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Frank on May 11, 2022

Takeaways from reading the book: What is courage? - Page 2: Workplace courage is taking action at work because it feels right and important to stand up for a principle - despite the potential for serious career, social, psychological and even physical repercussions for doing so. - Page 3: Workplace cou......more

Goodreads review by Violeta on March 11, 2022

Un libro para denunciar y tomar acción ante actitudes antiéticas o abusivas en el ambiente de trabajo. Tiene varios conceptos interesantes de comunicación no violenta, feedbacks y negociación.......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on June 18, 2021

To be reviewed in the Sept-Oct issue of Global Business and Organizational Excellence......more

Goodreads review by Brooke on September 16, 2022

A good read that gives practical tools and techniques for building up your “courage competency” in the work setting. I like Detert’s idea of the courage ladder and using that to gradually build up your courage muscle. Although the first half is a little slow and basic, the second half picks up, and......more

Goodreads review by Ruby on August 03, 2021

Every word, every page, and every chapter of this guide is profoundly valuable for those rising up the corporate latter, regardless of the industry you work in. The more years of experience you earn, the more responsibility you have to those entering the work force, to create the stage where everyon......more