Top business experts address an important leadership quality.

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What we label courage is a strong emotional commitment--and the key word is emotional--to some ideas.those ideas could be called a vision for where we are trying to drive the enterprise.they could be called values for what we think is important in life.they could be called principles of what is right and wrong.when people donot just have an intellectual sense that these are logically good,but are deeply committed to them,they are doveloping courage.when you run up against barriers that keep ou from those ideals,the stronger your commitment,the more likely you are to take action consistent with those ideals,even if it is against your shortterm best interests.other people will look at that and say,"wow,that is courageous."