Outward Bound Lessons to Live a Life of Leadership

CHAPTER EIGHT

To Strive for Your Values

Each time a man stands for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

—Robert F. Kennedy

For more than fifty years Outward Bound has developed leaders steeped in the values of integrity, mentorship, and compassion. While research on these important values has been around for decades, they are only now beginning to be fully integrated into organizational practices, particularly in business. Books such as Good to Great have identified the importance of humble, ...