A friend to all is a friend to none.

- Aristotle
Courage
Comfort zone?
Comfort zone?
 Comfort zone?
If we're growing, we're always going to be out
of our comfort zone.
John Maxwell
A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.
--William Shedd

Edgar Degas
Ships in a storm
1860
 Groups of three students:
Each group has to come up with a statement on
leadership or on ethics, relating to COURAGE
You may invent it, get it from a previous session,
online
You have 10 minutes to submit it on paper
Then, each group has to come to the front and
say the statement and then explain it.
Rashness versus Courage
Principle and Courage
Principle and Courage
 COURAGE
Courage: the heart of leadership

Good leaders are courageous

One perhaps may even say all leaders are
courageous (or else they are not leaders even if
they are in chair to lead)

And if you are courageous, then you are, in some

sense, a leader.
 Accepting Defeat
(sign of courage)
McCain Concession Speech: "The Failure Is
Mine"
Acknowledging errors and defeat is a sign of
courage
Courage is going from failure to failure without
losing enthusiasm.
--Winston Churchill
Quotes on courage
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -
not absence of fear
--Mark Twain
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and
listen.
--Winston Churchill
 Courage versus fear

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of

failure.

Sven Goran Eriksson

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes
courage is the quiet voice at the end of the
day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.
--Mary Anne Radmacher
The key to change... is to let go of fear.
--Rosanne Cash
They can't hurt you unless you let them.
If you wait to do everything until you're sure
it's right, you'll probably never do much of
anything.
--Win Borden
Whatever course you decide upon, there is
always someone to tell you that you are
wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to
believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of
action and follow it to an end requires
courage.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without courage all virtues lose their
meaning.
--Winston Churchill
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but
the form of every virtue at the testing point.
--C.S. Lewis
Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid
and act anyway.
--Dr. Robert Anthony
Courage is the art of being the only one who
knows you're scared to death.
--Earl Wilson
The opposite of courage in our society is not
cowardice, it is conformity.
-- Rollo May
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and
confidence.
- Aristotle
All human actions have one or more of these
seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions,
habit, reason, passion, desire.
- Aristotle
You will never do anything in this world
without courage. It is the greatest quality of
the mind next to honor.
--Aristotle
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses
a friend loses more; but he who loses his
courage loses all.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Being deeply loved by someone gives you
strength, while loving someone deeply gives
you courage.
--Lao Tzu
What is your guiding star?
Purpose of ethics?
For people?
Media?
You?
Yourself?
 Passion versus position
A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision
comes from passion, not position.
--John Maxwell
Teleological Deontological

Ethics based on purpose Ethics based on duty

(tele= far or purpose)

 Footnote:

Etymologically: telescope = television

Both mean far vision
Do you have a guiding star that you are willing
to suffer for?
Do you have a guiding star that you are willing
to suffer for?

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep

to gain that which he cannot lose."
Responsibility
 Responsible towards whom?
God
History
People
Conscience
Self-confidence
If you have a clear guiding principle in your life,
then you have self confidence

Self-confidence does not mean forcing/imposing

on subordinates, but it means being convinced
and aware of your path.