From the course: 20 Habits of Executive Leadership
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Cultivate courage
- A headline earlier this year read, "60% of US adults are feeling daily stress and worry. Nearly one in five adults experience diagnosable anxiety." If executive success depends on remaining grounded, watch out for stress, worry and anxiety. These fire-breathing dragons pose an existential challenge to your executive knighthood. And the key to being knighted is cultivating courage. Aristotle describes courage as the virtue between two vices, cowardice and rashness. According to the philosopher, courageous action depends on your ability to mediate your fear appropriately and act in light of it. Let me explain. Imagine you're a knight and the king has just announced that a nearby dragon must be slain. This is your quest for the taking. Set aside the ethics of dragon slaying and just go with me here. If you're a coward, you might board up your home inside the kingdom and just call it a day. If you're a rash, you might…
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