May 2016
Do You Know How to Brand Your Performance Results?
Emilio Navarro, solutions engineering team leader, knows how to reveal his talents by branding his performance results. Unwilling to be invisible, Emilio shares how he showcases his talents: “I always use courage at work while making decisions, while talking to people, while interacting with clients. Courage is who you are, and the decisions you make are how you work
Money or Courage?
“Money lost, nothing lost. Courage lost, all is lost.” — Yiddish proverb
Dizzy Dean: “It ain’t braggin’ if you can do it!”
Many women think that speaking or acting in courage demonstrates offensive behavior even if they are conveying the truth. I call this tendency the “too syndrome”—too assertive, too independent, too intense, too bold, too honest, too smart. Ironically, when men demonstrate the same kind of behavior, they identify with baseball’s Dizzy Dean: “It ain’t braggin’ if you can do it!”
How Women Can Hit the Bull’s-Eye with Courage (Every Time)
When we think of courage in present day society, we instantly see images of a super hero slaying bad guys or a soldier braving an onslaught of enemy fire. Yet the origin of courage is much closer to the actions that we take every day. Aristotle reminds us, “Courage is the first of human virtues because it makes all
Confront uncomfortable truths
Speaking with courage means learning to speak with your own voice, to express the truth that flows from your own “heart and spirit”—the opposite of fear of ridicule and being ostracized. (Candor is a cousin to courage.) Only by learning to express ourselves from our own courageous identities can we begin to employ the courage action that moves us