Bravery and courage, are certainly similar, but are they synonymous? No, there is a profound difference.
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. – Wendell Phillips
Bravery vs Courage
Priorities
Courage: The Backbone of Leadership
“There’s a huge gap between a good person and a person of character, there’s an equivalently huge gap between ethics and courage.” – Gus Lee, Courage: The Backbone of Leadership
Following the Rules Is Never Enough
Following rules alone not only fails to inspire trust it leads to a culture of “compliance with the letter of the law” and finding “loopholes” to achieve the lowest level of compliance necessary to stay out of trouble. Rules, standards or laws will never set the bar high enough to draw out the excellence that can only come from character and integrity.
Lessons From the Glass
“Is the glass half full or half empty?” The question is typically intended to reveal something about your worldview. Are you an optimist or a pessimist? A familiar and simple idiom, but one that I think offers more than the one dimensional illustration we are accustomed to.
American Sniper: The Faith of a Sheepdog
Much is being made of the life of Chris Kyle, some positive and some negative, after the release of American Sniper. Both the book and the movie provide a glimpse of the man’s faith and his philosophy of life. In one of the early scenes in the movie after Chris has defended his younger brother from […]
Good Leaders Make You Feel Safe
“When the people feel safe and protected by the leadership in the organization, the natural reaction is to trust and cooperate.” – Simon Sinek
Ethical Followership is Essential to Effective Leadership
You have an obligation to yourself, your boss, and your organization to speak up when you disagree. One of the best ways to earn respect is advocating for your ideas with integrity, courtesy, and intelligence. – Dan Rockwell
Dynamic Followership: The Key to Leadership
Dynamic Followers, simply, are followers who take charge of both their personal and professional development, ensure complete competency at their primary duty, actively manage their relationships and exercise independent thought with both professional restraint and respect.
Analyze Your Fears
Fear is a big enemy to guard against, while at the same time an essential ally to understand. Allowing irrational fear to influence your thinking can paralyze you, but ignoring fear triggered by real danger will kill you. Erasmus’ third rule is a warning to analyze your fears and understand the difference.
Warrior, Servant, Leader: Three Parts of One Calling
“I hope you are challenged to find your Warrior, Servant, Leader vision, whether you are a cop or not. I hope you understand and adopt the Warrior-Servant-Leader Code for your own life and live it out every day, in everything you do.” – Pat Welsh