While emerging sage leaders identify with all five motivations, most senior sages are chiefly motivated by altruism and self-interest—and a few by power.

In this fourth issue we investigate both the motivations associated with civic engagement for these men and women and the sacrifices being made by them on behalf of this engagement.

Emerging sage leaders tend to be motivated in one of five ways to become civically engaged.

This is a sample chapter from my book Find Your Courage: 12 Acts for Becoming Fearless in Work and in Life (McGraw-Hill). It explores the concept of integrity, and makes the case for why it is crucial to laying a foundation for our lives based on uncompromised integrity if we want to achieve the success and fulfillment to which we …