Bill Treasurer is a workplace expert, courage pioneer, and best-selling author of 5 books including celebrating its 10th anniversary edition: Courage Goes to Work: How to Build Backbones, Boost Performance, and Get Results. He is the founder of Giant Leap Consulting, a consulting and training company specializing in courage-building, he advises organizations—including NASA, eBay, Lenovo, Saks Fifth Avenue, Spanx, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Pittsburgh Pirates—on teaching workers the kind of courage that strengthens businesses and careers.
According to Warble’s 2018 Workplace Experience Study, nearly two-thirds of employees have witnessed harmful workplace behaviors—including discrimination, bad attitudes, theft, harassment, and more—but didn’t speak up due to fear. Fear of being labeled, fear of their managers, fear of retaliation, and fear of losing their jobs all topped the “why I stayed silent” list. But for businesses, this silence comes at a financial cost.
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Learning From Leaders:
Current Book: The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks
Leadership Superpower: The day moon: a healthy observer of group process
Motivational Mantra:
[shareable]Be courageous[/shareable]
[shareable cite=”Mark Twain”]Good judgement is the result of experience, experience is the result of bad judgement[/shareable]
Book Most Often Gifted: Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View by Stanley Milgram
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Courage Goes to Work: How to Build Backbones, Boost Performance, and Get Results by Bill Treasurer