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Summary of Dare to Lead by Brené Brown
What’s in it for me? Learn how to lead with courage.
Managers and executives all over the world want to know how they can become more effective leaders. Should you prove yourself by demonstrating your power over subordinates? Would you command more respect if you changed your job title? In fact, if you want to become a better leader you’ll need to forget all about status, titles and power plays.
Instead, get ready to engage your heart and mind as you go on a journey to discover how the most courageous leaders think, feel and behave. You’ll look at what concepts such as trust, honesty and failure can tell you about daring leadership, and challenge conventional wisdom about how the most successful among us operate.
You’ll also discover the impact of your values, emotions and interpersonal relationships on your effectiveness as a leader. Finally, you’ll learn why, in a competitive and hostile working culture, you nonetheless need to let yourselves be vulnerable if you want to get ahead.
In these summaries, you’ll
| What skydiving can teach you about leadership skills; | Why vulnerability leads to innovation; and | Why bravery and perfectionism don’t mix.
Managers and executives all over the world want to know how they can become more effective leaders. Should you prove yourself by demonstrating your power over subordinates? Would you command more respect if you changed your job title? In fact, if you want to become a better leader you’ll need to forget all about status, titles and power plays.
Instead, get ready to engage your heart and mind as you go on a journey to discover how the most courageous leaders think, feel and behave. You’ll look at what concepts such as trust, honesty and failure can tell you about daring leadership, and challenge conventional wisdom about how the most successful among us operate.
You’ll also discover the impact of your values, emotions and interpersonal relationships on your effectiveness as a leader. Finally, you’ll learn why, in a competitive and hostile working culture, you nonetheless need to let yourselves be vulnerable if you want to get ahead.
In these summaries, you’ll
| What skydiving can teach you about leadership skills; | Why vulnerability leads to innovation; and | Why bravery and perfectionism don’t mix.
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Published November 3, 2018
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January 2, 2024Brown describes how we need to lead from a place of vulnerability and focus on how shame changes us and those we lead. She stresses "rumbling" communication where to you deep and get to the root of issues. People people people
November 20, 2018
Bref et concis
Donne une idée claire sur le rôle de la vulnérabilité et la connaissance de soi dans le processus de leadership
Donne une idée claire sur le rôle de la vulnérabilité et la connaissance de soi dans le processus de leadership
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