Choosing to Be Brave – Resources

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Pillar: BENEVOLENCE

Habit No.8: Choosing to be brave
Do you have the moral courage to stick your neck out and to stand up for what you believe in? This is the type of bravery that builds trust when people know that you will do the right thing, even if it could have negative personal consequences.

Two Minutes on Trust: Listen to Dr John Blakey and Fiona Furman, Communications Manager at NAHL Group plc, discussing Habit No.8 in ‘The Nine Habits of Trust – Choosing to Be Brave’.

Podcasts

Habit 8 Choosing to be Brave

October 21, 2021

In this 50-minute episode of The Trusted Executive podcast, Dr John Blakey, David Wetton and Fiona Furman take a deep dive into Habit number 8 – Choosing to Be Brave.

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(The Trusted Executive Podcast – Nine Habits – YouTube full playlist)


Blogs


Articles

4 Ways to be Braver

May 2015 by Margarita Tartakovsky, MS on PsychCentral, psychcentral.com

Courage is plentiful. In fact, it’s all around us, writes Robert Biswas-Diener, Ph.D, a positive psychology researcher and founder of Positive Acorn, in his latest book The Courage Quotient: How Science Can Make You Braver. And it doesn’t just happen on the battlefield: It also happens…

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The Trusted Executive Website

The Trusted Executive Ltd operated from May 2017 to January 2025 and successfully pioneered the organisational implementation of the Nine Habits of Trust model, originally researched and developed by Dr John Blakey at Aston Business School and featured in his book, ‘The Trusted Executive’.

Although the company has now ceased trading, this site is preserved as a legacy archive of insights, case studies, blogs and free resources. To learn more about the ongoing work and thought leadership of Dr John Blakey, plus contact him personally, please visit www.johnblakey.co.uk.

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