Courage 2

Stress:Does it stimulate or stifle courage?
There's a famous graph in industrial psychology that despict that under very low levels of stress for enperiencedfolks, perforance isn't as great as it is when there's a modest level of stress. But it's a parabolic curve. It goes up for a while-more stress, better perforance-but it crests at a panic point. As strress goes beyond that panic point, perforance tapers off. The callind of a leader is to ensure that each person who works for her doesn't reach that point and become paralyzed.
~Michel Useem

Is courage an individual or a group activity?
Courage is not a product of individual behavior. It's a function of feeling part of social fabric,of a network that's going to do something that has never been done before.People do gutsy things because they're in a group.Leaders articualate those goals and incarnate the behavior through symbolic conduct to get people to follow.
~Warren Bennis