Foreword xvAcknowledgments xviiIntroduction 1Part I The Courageous Self 13Chapter 1 Step One: Where Am I? I Assess Myself 15Chapter 2 Step Two: Who Am I, Really? I Admit and Quit the 3 NOs 39Chapter 3 Step Three: Getting It Right--The 3 GOs 73Part II Courage with Others 121Chapter 4 Step Four: Playsets for Basic CourCom 123Chapter 5 Step Five: Playsets for CourCom Conflicts 147Part III You Decide: Choosing Your Core 189Chapter 6 Your Identity: Naming, Claiming, and Aiming 193Chapter 7 The Individual Courage Advancement Plan: ICAP 197Chapter 8 Crossing the River 209Epilogue 217Appendix: Cut-out Memory Cards 219Notes 223Glossary of Acronyms 245About the Author 247Index 249
GUS LEE, bestselling author of Courage: The Backbone of Leadership and China Boy, is a nationally recognized leadership and character advancement expert who has worked in or consulted to 50 professions and industries. A former corporate chief operating officer, chief learning officer, government senior executive, West Point's first Chair of Character Development, U.S. Senate ethics investigator, acting deputy attorney general, supervising deputy district attorney, university assistant dean, U.S. Army officer and paratrooper, he trains and coaches through his company, Leaders of Character, LLC, and writes at guslee.net.