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The Trust & Courage Set
The Courage Gap
The Four Escalating Acts of Exposure Every Leader Must Practice
"Be brave" is inspiring and completely unactionable. This book replaces it with a trainable structure: the Exposure Ladder™, four escalating acts of professional courage — exposing an opinion, an error, an uncertainty, and a boundary — that most leaders attempt out of order, skipping the smaller, more recoverable rungs and wondering why the highest-stakes moments feel impossible. It shows why the fear before an act of exposure is a measurably biased estimate rather than an accurate forecast, and how a simple weekly practice turns courage into a trained, repeatable capacity.
$16.99
Who Should Read This
- ✓Leaders who know the honest thing to say in a hard moment and consistently don't say it
- ✓Anyone who has attempted a high-stakes confrontation or boundary without practicing a smaller version first
- ✓Executives who want to model psychological safety through demonstrated action, not just policy
- ✓Leaders setting a boundary with someone senior to them for the first time
What You'll Learn
- ★The Exposure Ladder™: Opinion, Error, Uncertainty, and Boundary as four distinct, trainable rungs
- ★A specific explanation for why rung-skipping — attempting Boundary without practicing Opinion first — fails
- ★The pre-and-post cost estimate — a tool for correcting the brain's biased fear forecasts
- ★A model for how a leader's own exposure sets the real, felt norm for an entire team
- ★The Weekly Exposure Rep — a small, repeatable practice for building courage like any trained skill
