You get the chance to business lead: showing up confidently, connected to others, and focused on a purpose in a way that inspires others to follow. Maybe it’s within your work environment, or in your relationships, or simply within your own lifestyle. But great leadership-leadership that aligns groups, inspires action, and achieves results-is hard. And why is it hard isn’t theoretical, it’s useful. It isn’t about knowing what things to state or do. It’s about whether you’re ready to experience the discomfort, about Leading With Emotional Courage: How exactly to Have Hard Discussions, Create Accountability, And Inspire Actions On Your Most Important Work risk, and uncertainty of saying or carrying it out. In other words, the most critical challenge of command is emotional courage. If you’re willing to experience everything, you can certainly do anything.

Leading with Emotional Courage, based on the author’s popular sites for Harvard Business Critique, provides practical, real-world advice for building your emotional courage muscle mass. Each short, accessible chapter details a definite part of this emotional ‘workout,’ giving you grounded information for handling the difficult circumstances without compromising professional ground. By building the courage to state the required but difficult points, you feel a stronger head and leave the ‘should’ves’ behind.