According to Leadership Isn’t for Cowards, by Michael Staver, it takes courage to:

• Make decisions even though you don’t have all the information you would like to have. Your decisions must be consistent with your value system.
• Commemorate achievement of the discrete steps on the path to your goal. Be as enthusiastic as you would be on the achievement of the goal.
• Be a lifelong learner. Continuously learn about yourself, your people, and your business.
• Build relationships with your people, and care about them, but also be firm with them and challenge them to be better.

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From Partner’s Report—the Monthly Update for CPA Firm Owners, August 2006, p. 8. For subscription information contact Institute of Management & Administration, Inc., 3 Park Avenue, 30th Floor, New York, NY 10016-5902. One-year subscription $349. 212-244-0360, [email protected].