courage Archives - Jeff Nischwitz

Caring Over Courage

January 21, 2019 Leave a Comment

Leadership is not always easy. In fact, it often involves taking risks. One way to think about leadership is that it’s like walking into and through a fire. You can usually tell when you are leading because you feel the heat or sense the risk. If leadership was easy, everyone […]

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The Target Is Not Optional

June 28, 2017 Leave a Comment

Over the past six months, I’ve been sharing a leadership truth with my audiences – an arrow of truth that is not easy to hear, but it IS a leadership reality. Whenever you choose to lead, whether in taking on a leadership role, accepting a leadership assignment or taking action […]

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Change Is Dangerous – Do It Anyway

June 3, 2016 Leave a Comment

In case you missed it earlier this week, the Tuesday Daily Wake Up Call was called “Channeling Jack Nicholson” and offered the perspective that Jack Nicholson’s character in the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was not crazy, but rather courageous in challenging the status quo. I got lots […]

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LEAP Into 2016

December 31, 2015 1 Comment

In case you missed it, 2016 is a special year – special because you get a whole extra day during the year. That’s right, every four years we get an extra day and 2016 is one of those years – a leap year. But let’s face it – that extra […]

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In You Must Go

December 17, 2015 Leave a Comment

You knew it was coming – with the debut of The Force Awakens you had to know I would share a message with a Star Wars theme. Yet perhaps not the message or reference you anticipated. One of the often forgotten scenes from The Empire Strikes Back occurs when Luke […]

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Leadership Lessons from Butch and Sundance©

July 20, 2015 Leave a Comment

If you don’t know what the title is referring to, then you’ve never seen the Oscar-winning and iconic Western starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).[1] The movie tells the story of Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker (aka Butch Cassidy – Paul […]

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Do You Trust Yourself?©

March 4, 2015 Leave a Comment

I love movies, and I’m convinced that they offer us many life and business lessons, but only if we’re paying attention. In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Harrison Ford (Indy) is following the clues provided in his father’s (Sean Connery) diary when he arrives at what appears to […]

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Reframing Courage© (adapted from Unmask: Let Go of Who You’re “Supposed” to Be & Unleash Your True Leader)

November 19, 2014 Leave a Comment

One of the best ways to experience the difference between conscious and unconscious leaders is to examine the concept of courage and what it means for a leader (or any person) to be courageous. Here are some of the most common definitions of courage: Mental or moral strength to persevere, […]

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