Honor Under Pressure Building a Code That Holds When Everything Else Fails
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Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
04.04.2026
Verlag
Amazon Digital Services LLC - KdpSeitenzahl
332
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/1,9 cm
Gewicht
445 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798252652290
Lead through crisis without surrendering your judgment or your integrity.
When trust is breaking down, people need an answer before you have all the facts. The institution still has to function. Every option carries a cost. And the principles you thought were settled suddenly become negotiable.
Honor Under Pressure is for founders, executives, and leaders carrying that responsibility. It helps you build a written personal honor code: a foundation for deciding what you will defend, where you will exercise restraint, and how you will recognize your own rationalizations.
Five historical lives. Five ways character is tested.
Through Cato, George Washington, Seneca, Abraham Lincoln, and George Marshall, Christopher Myers examines principled refusal, the discipline of power, the slow erosion of integrity, moral growth, and the work of passing a code to the people who come after you. Their strengths and failures reveal what leadership demands when authority, legitimacy, and survival are at stake.
Use these lessons to:
- Draw a line you can defend when protecting it carries a personal or professional cost.
- Recognize compromise before it becomes surrender and confront the explanations you use to excuse it.
- Distinguish conviction from rigidity so you can reconsider your judgment without abandoning your principles.
- Exercise authority with restraint and build something that can endure beyond your own leadership.
The book brings history, moral philosophy, and the Fourth Turning framework of recurring crises to the decisions leaders face in a crisis era. Its concluding chapter gives you a step-by-step protocol for creating your own written honor code.
Christopher Myers is CEO of B: Side Capital and a professor at Arizona State University's W. P. Carey School of Business. He writes from the intersection of operating responsibility, leadership education, and historical inquiry.
Build your code before the next crisis puts it to the test.
Book One in The Fourth Turning Leader series.
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