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Courage vs. Subservience – Liz Cheney and Elise Stefanik

Representative Liz Cheney made a choice yesterday and she did it alone. There was no pandering to power, no one standing by her side at the podium. She took what I wrote about in my Harvard Business Review article “Courage … Continue reading

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Courage In The Face of President-Instigated Insurrection

If ever there was a time for courage in the U.S. Congress, the time is now. Leaders without courage are imposters. First and foremost, they seek to protect their power and position. They are sycophants and cowards preening and pounding … Continue reading

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Today’s Congressional Profile in Cowardice

The U.S. senator and onetime prisoner of war John McCain defined courage as a brief, singular occurrence: “that rare moment of unity between conscience, fear, and action, when something deep within us strikes the flint of love, of honor, of … Continue reading

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Yesterday We Saw Real Courage

In yesterday’s impeachment hearings  we saw two men, William Taylor and George Kent, highly credible and deeply devoted to country, thrust into a limelight they never sought in their careers. They stepped forward to tell what they know no matter … Continue reading

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