Make Courage Contagious

Turbulence doesn't make it easy to get your voice heard, advance your career or make a difference. But it doesn't have to be fatal. If you Make Courage Contagious and PowerUP your brilliance and the brilliance of the people around you, you can turn turbulence into an adventure and profit through turbulence. Klein and Klein are business psychologists with 20+ years of experience building courage in innovation leaders and teams that lead transformation, that fund and scale entrepreneurial ventures, that accelerate post-M+A integrations, that prepare high-potential leaders for bigger and broader enterprise assignments. Klein and Klein reduce Courage to a 5-part formula - the EnCourage Quotient (EnQ)? - that the most successful business leaders learn to lift themselves and others out of victim thinking and 11 other risk-averse traps. They show how courage can be cultivated and developed, and encoded into your instincts. They show how you can take people who rub you the wrong way or who come from diverse backgrounds and profit from the tension and abrasion they bring to your team, to sharpen up your thinking. When leaders PowerUP Brilliance, instead of getting stuck, they find opportunities that go beyond their first idea and they mitigate threats that seemed daunting. Churchill said, "Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's Courage that counts." This book shows you how to put that to work - and make it contagious.