courageous 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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