It only became apparent that courage was an issue when I asked the executives what they do when there's something that comes up in a board meeting they don't quite understand.
He has known terrible tragedy in his life: his brother shot himself, his mother died recently, the mother of his son, Lamar, is critically ill, he is estranged from his current wife and from his father Bill, who was displeased by his apparent lack of courage when he fought Tony Tucker.
It wins kudos for its courage and apparent incorruptibility under Mr Ben Ali, who imprisoned many of its leaders (and at one time a good 5,000 of the rank and file), some of them for 20 years.
"The little community seems to be crippled with fear before the approaching villains," Schein wrote, "seems to be timid, neutral, and half-hearted, like the United Nations before the Soviet Union, China and North Korea; moral courage is apparent only in the very American sheriff".
Immense courage is especially apparent in the young people.
Fair enough, but will he have the courage of his apparent convictions?
Just how much courage soon became apparent, for she was suffering from cancer, and died in early 1964.
But it could have been acceptable, perhaps even brilliant, if it had had the courage of its apparent convictions and followed through with its revenge threat.
She is clearly frustrated that Theresa May, having chosen to take the legal high road over deporting Abu Qatada rather than succumbing to backbench pressure to get rid of him with few questions asked, could not have the courage of her apparent convictions and claim his eventual departure as a victory for doing things by the book.
Almeida of the Library Journal finds the book "a pleasant sequel", one in which Angelou's "religious strength, personal courage, and ... talent" was apparent in its pages.
