Courageous Disobedience

In my workshops on Courageous Followership we do an exercise in which participants examine from where they draw courage when they need to speak up about a sensitive subject that risks them losing the support of their senior managers. Some draw on values on which they were raised, others on their professional codes of conduct and still others on examples of courageous acts by others.

We recently read about an example of a courageous principled stand that was taken when there was far more at...