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Dare to Lead

The inspiring, internationally bestselling book on leadership and courage

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Dare to Lead

By: Brené Brown
Narrated by: Brené Brown
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How do you cultivate braver, more daring leaders? And how do you embed the value of courage in your culture?

Written and read by NYT best seller Brené Brown, Dare to Lead answers these questions and gives us actionable strategies and real examples from her new research-based, courage-building programme.

Leadership is not about titles, status and power over people. Leaders are people who hold themselves accountable for recognising the potential in people and ideas and developing that potential. This is an audiobook for everyone who is ready to choose courage over comfort, make a difference and lead.

When we dare to lead, we don't pretend to have the right answers; we stay curious and ask the right questions. We don't see power as finite and hoard it; we know that power becomes infinite when we share it and work to align authority and accountability. We don't avoid difficult conversations and situations; we lean into the vulnerability that's necessary to do good work.

But daring leadership in a culture that's defined by scarcity, fear and uncertainty requires building courage skills, which are uniquely human. The irony is that we're choosing not to invest in developing the hearts and minds of leaders at the same time we're scrambling to figure out what we have to offer that machines can't do better and faster. What can we do better? Empathy, connection and courage, to start.

© Brené Brown 2018 (P) Penguin Audio 2018

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With Dare to Lead, Brené brings decades of research to bear in a practical and insightful guide to courageous leadership. This book is a road map for anyone who wants to lead mindfully, live bravely, and dare to lead.
Brené visited Pixar to talk with our filmmakers. Her message was important, as movies are best when they come from a place of vulnerability, when the people who make them encounter setbacks and are forced to overcome them, when they are willing to have their asses handed to them. It is easy to sit back and talk about the values of a safe and meaningful culture, but extraordinarily difficult to pull it off. You don’t achieve good culture without constant attention, without an environment of safety, courage, and vulnerability. These are hard skills, but they are teachable skills. Start with this book.
Whether you’re leading a movement or a start-up, if you’re trying to change an organizational culture or the world, Dare to Lead will challenge everything you think you know about brave leadership and give you honest, straightforward, actionable tools for choosing courage over comfort.
We asked Brené to bring her work on courage and vulnerability to our Air Force base. This is a tough audience, many of them with significant combat experience. Within five minutes, you could have heard a pin drop. Brené cuts through the noise and speaks to what makes us human and makes the mission happen. Dare to Lead is about real leadership: tenacious, from the heart, and full of grit.
Brené is Google Empathy Lab’s Obi-Wan Kenobi. She has profoundly inspired our product leaders to design in and embrace vulnerability, rather than engineer it out. It’s a critical and transformative act to bring your alive, messy, wholehearted human self to work every day. Dare to Lead is the skillful and empowering Jedi training we have all been waiting for.
Applying the principles from Dare to Lead to my work as a principal has transformed the way I show up with parents, students, and colleagues, and how I lead. Brené’s words, stories, and examples connect with our hearts and minds, and her actionable approach gives us the tools to be braver with our lives and our work.
Brené truly gives it all away in Dare to Lead. Courage is a set of teachable skills, and she teaches us exactly how to build those muscles with research, stories, examples, and new language. The future belongs to brave leaders, and she’s written the ultimate playbook for daring leadership.
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Im a 22 year old dude and the story of you missing your flight made me cry - this book is beautifully spoken and contains great pointers towards becoming a better leader. Loved the realness of Brene

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Filled with great tips and tricks to bring courage and empathy to leadership, I walked away with so many ideas I just can't wait to try out

A wonderful resource for any leader

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This book is brilliant and from one of the best story tellers I have listened to. Brene really brings you into her world and shows you what this idea of Daring to Lead is all about. If you are after a book that tells you what to do and is very instructional from a leader who's achieved it...go look somewhere else. This book is for people who want to be a part of a bigger story than themselves and who want to display change for others while showing the raw authentic journey that comes with it. Brene you've written another stunning book! I can't wait to listen again 😊

A book for compassionate leaders

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Brené Brown is more than just a writer, more than just a researcher. She is leading a revolution in what she has found in her research and what she teaches through books like this one.

This should be on the curriculum of every secondary school & tertiary institution worldwide, not to mention in every boardroom and office of every political representative, every principal’s bookshelf & every couple’s night stand! This book applies just as much to “leaders” in romantic relationships & families as it does in the world of business, education & politics. As I said in the heading, it is ground breaking. Thank you Brené Brown for your courage to bring this work to the public arena - and to be the woman in the arena inspiring all of us to lead and live in more effective, powerful ways!

Brilliant & ground breaking as usual!!

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I am a fan of Brene Brown's and this is by far her best work yet. Highly recommend this book.

Fantastic Book

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