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What does workplace courage look like and how do we do it well? James Detert, the John L Colley Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia, has spent a lot of time thinking about this very question. He offers this advice to finding courage when you need it most.
âI am manager of the Trust Department in a branch of a small, Midwest bank. Our newly appointed Regional Manager has changed the bankâs money-management strategy, getting clients into vehicles which generate large fees for the bank at the clientâs expense. This is plain wrong, but everyone, including myself, is afraid to speak-up.
âI think this will get us in trouble if it continues, but we all have families to support, and frankly no one, me included, has the courage to say a word. You have written about lawyers in the same situation. Do you have any recommendations, anything that will help me raise these issues and not get fired? Thanks, Shirley.â