Bill Treasurer - Courage Goes to Work: How to Build Backbones, Boost Performance, and Get Results

High Praise for Courage Goes to Work

Courage Goes to Work helps solve the most perplexing management dilemma of all: how to inspire employees who are too comfortable and too afraid (or, as Bill says, comfeartable). Dont just read it absorb it!

Lilicia P. Bailey, Chief People Officer, Manheim

This book is truly awesome! Bill Treasurer has stolen courage from the gods and brought it to the workplace, where it is desperately needed. Everyone in a leadership role should put this book on their must-read list. After reading it, you may find the courage to buy a copy for your boss!

Chip Bell, author of Customer Loyalty Guaranteed

There are few business books that can truly be called transformative, and Courage Goes to Work is one of them. It offers tangible ideas for helping workers have more initiative, confidence, and backbone. If your employees could use more of those things, then this book is for you.

David Baruch, CIO, Hewitt Associates

Courage Goes to Work is an excellent, well-written, and relevant book that captures the nuances of courage that will enable readers build couragefor themselves and for others. This is truly a thoughtful composition of the lessons learned on a figurative and literal high dive.

Chuck McManus, Vice President

(Fund of Hedge Funds Data Management), Morgan Stanley

Courage is the first and most important component of success in business. Without it, there is nothing more than mediocrity and boredom. Bill Treasurer captures this awareness in his book and instructs us in making sure were not overlooking that important aspect of fulfillment and success in our working life. Have the courage to leap, he says, even from dizzying heights. The water will embrace you and reward you. He knowshes been there.

David Ryback, coauthor of Psychology of Champions

Bill Treasurer is like a modern-day Wizard of Oz who helps to make us more courageous, not just at work, but in life. Instead of giving us medals to remind us not to be afraid, he offers buckets of specific tools that show us how to tap into our inner courage whenever and wherever we need it. This will be one of the most dog-eared books on my shelf. And it will hold a place of honor right next to his other gem, Right Risk.

Marilynn T. Mobley, Senior Vice President and Strategic Counsel,

Edelman & Associates

You will not find a more clear voice on courage than Bill Treasurers. Like Bill, I have worked for over a decade exploring courage in the high-risk realm of leader-follower relations with senior political figures and management teams. I do a good job of this at a foundational level. Bills work is the graduate program. Let him guide you to the heights where your life and work become extraordinarybecause you understand your fear and that of others and bring out the courage in each.

Ira Chaleff, author of The Courageous Follower

Having spent over two decades in HR, I have seen a good number of books come and go. Only a handful really make you think, and Courage Goes to Work is one of them. It introduces an important new management practice: courage building. This powerful yet often-ignored concept can change the way people and organizations succeed. Put this book at the top of your management reading listyoull be glad you did.

Keith Hicks, Vice President of Human Resources, Radiant Systems

Even for people who are full of courage, instilling courage in others can be a daunting task. As someone who knows a thing or two about courage, I found this book is an invaluable tool every manager can and should use. The only thing worse than the quagmire of an office locked in comfort or fear is a manager too afraid to do something about it!

Dustin Webster, seven-time world cliff-diving champion

and Executive Director, W.E. Rock Events, Inc.

Bill Treasurer brings a true blend of wisdom, compassion, and personal experience to the understanding of courage and brings a practical approach to giving people the courage to stretch themselves and achieve great results. Courage Goes to Work raises peoples standards so they can stop coasting along in the safety of good enough.

Conor Neill, CEO, Taxijet Spain, and Professor

of Managerial Communications, IESE Business School, Barcelona

Whether youre facing a hundred-foot diving board or your board of directors, Bills advice is practical, fun, and immediately applicable. His insightful and refreshing way of dealing with mental obstacles shows how fear, in both yourself and those around you, is nothing to be scared of.

Justin Roux, Senior Vice President, Luvata Group

Courage is good for any industry. But when you work in the wicked world of drug law enforcement the stakes are even higher. In my field an absence of courage in an agent at any level, from those working the street to senior executives, can cost lives. It is great news that it turns out that courage can be taughtthanks to Bill Treasurer.

June W. Rodgers, retired special agent in charge, New England

Field Division, Drug Enforcement Administration

Courage Goes to Work offers refreshing ideas about the most essential of all human qualities: courage. This is one of the rare business books that are relevant both personally and professionally. Read this book and go on the most important adventure of allputting courage to work at your office, in your home, and in your life.

Bill Murray, Director, Outward Bound Professional,

North Carolina Outward Bound

Courage Goes to Work is a must-read for anyone who needs to show up with strength at work every single day. This is an inspiring book about how we can all be a little more brave, authentic, and effective in our professional and personal lives. I was personally inspired by the message and will be recommending this book to everyone I know.

Brendon Burchard, author of Lifes Golden Ticket

Whenever Im feeling a bit chicken, I need only pick up Bills new book, Courage Goes to Work, and my own courage starts to rally. By the time Im finished reading, Im feeling like an eagleready to fly high and take on any challenge!

BJ Gallagher, coauthor of A Peacock in the Land of Penguins

Bill Treasurer is a peaceful warrior whose mission is to inspire others to take courageous action despite their fears. As a former combat fighter pilot, I am intimately familiar with what courage can do for the success of individuals and teams who work in high-pressure environments. Bills book is a compelling read and is packed full of thought-provoking, real-world anecdotes and simple yet powerful action steps to build courage at work. Its one of a kind.

Waldo Waldman, decorated fighter pilot and professional speaker

What I love about Courage Goes to Work is its pragmatism. Courage is often seen as something inborn that only people like skydivers or serial entrepreneurs have. Bill Treasurer shows us that courage is a learned behavior that managers can teach through daily practice.

Jonathon Flaum, Director, WriteMind Institute for

Corporate Contemplation; author of How the Paper Fish Learned to Swim and

How the Red Wolf Found Its Howl; and coauthor of The 100-Mile Walk

Finally, a practical and inspiring book about the virtue that is perhaps most needed yet most lacking in the world today: courage. If you ever wish that you could overcome your apprehensions and fears so that you could more fully reach your potential and dreams, a good place to start is to read this book.

Charles C. Manz, author of The Power of Failure and

The Leadership Wisdom of Jesus, and coauthor of

The Virtuous Organization and Nice Guys Can Get the Corner Office

In Courage Goes to Work