Dare to lead : brave work, tough conversations, whole hearts

Dare to lead Brave work, tough conversations, whole hearts

Brené Brown

Sound recording - 2018

Leadership is not about titles, status, and power over people. A leader is anyone who holds herself or himself accountable for recognizing the potential in people and ideas and developing that potential. 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 we work to align authority and accountability. We don't avoid difficult conversations and situations; we lean into vulnerability when it's necessary to do good work. But daring leadership in a culture that's defined by scarcity, fear, and uncertainty requires skill building around traits that are deeply and ...uniquely human. The irony is that we're choosing not to invest in developing the hearts and minds of leaders at the exact 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.

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Subjects
Leadership.
Audiobooks.
Genres
Audiobooks
Published
[Westminster, MD] : Books on Tape [2018]
Language
English
Main Author
Brené Brown (author)
Edition
Unabridged
Physical Description
7 audio discs (approximately 8 hr., 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN
9781984844231
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Review by Library Journal Review

Brown (Braving the Wilderness) left a Fortune 10 company in the early 1990s to pursue a career in social work. From systems change management and organizational environmental scanning, she soon found meaning in the study of courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy. The result is this intriguing new approach to leadership development that combines courage, connection, and meaning. Her key challenge is to explain how to cultivate braver, more daring leaders and how to grow the value of courage in any organization. Her findings are based on 20 years of interviews with leaders in a diverse range of organizations. Brown defines a leader as anyone who takes responsibility for finding potential in people and processes and who has the courage to develop that potential. Empathy in leadership requires appreciating someone else's perspective and feelings, even when that person directly challenges you. A daring leader manages by leading from the heart and is not threatened by showing their imperfections. This refreshing research on leadership from a specialist in the helping profession reaches many fields and provides actionable strategies and real-life examples from a variety of leadership situations. The work makes a timely arrival as today, far too many people in leadership roles pretend to have the answers, see power as something to hoard, avoid difficulties, lie indiscriminately and pathologically, and shy away from any degree of vulnerability or accountability. Brown's work manages to add significant new ideas to this saturated genre and arrives at a time when our society has seemingly chosen not to invest in developing the hearts and minds of leaders or support the teaching and molding of courage and commitment to do bold work and put our whole hearts into our endeavors. -VERDICT This work will appeal to the fans of the servant leadership works of Robert K. Greenleaf, Ken Blanchard, and James C. Hunter.-Dale Farris, Groves, TX © Copyright 2019. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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