Welcome to the Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast. A conversation designed to help leaders

go further faster. On today's podcast, we're going to explore the importance of courage

in the life of every leader. Andy, obviously courage is important for all of us, but

why is it so critical for leaders?

Well, I think as we look not so much at our own lives, but as we look at history as

we look at the people who've been a lot since we look at the people we admire both

historically and personally. Here's what we discover that oftentimes it is a single

act of courage, a single act of courage that's the tipping point or maybe the transition

point for extraordinary change. That it's, you know, and the big changes, there's somebody

or a group of people that do something that's courageous and that single act of courage

or a series of acts of courage are often the tipping point or the transition point for

extraordinary change. I mean, there's so many examples of this. You think about Rosa

Parks back in 1955, deciding I'm not going to get off this bus. I'm just, I'm tired of

treating this way. I'm not going to get up and move. And that single act of courage,

she became an international symbol of the civil rights movement, a single act of courage.

More recently, we looked at a handful of people who, who in Egypt, decided we're not leaving

this square. And they almost, they toppled an entire government. Similarly, the same thing

happened in Libya. And again, we're watching all those things, you know, continue to change

and continue to evolve. But for good or for bad, oftentimes it's a single act of courage

that's the tipping point or the transition point for extraordinary change. And the reason

this is so important for us as leaders is because people follow us, because people are

watching us. We're in the midst of decision making. And oftentimes even, even corporately

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