It's why we're here.I’ve spent twenty years studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy, and I recently completed a seven-year study on brave leadership. We want to be brave with our lives and work. Choosing courage over comfort is not easy. All it requires is a commitment to doing bold work, having tough conversations and showing up with our whole hearts.

Courage is a collection of four skill sets supported by twenty-eight behaviours. How do you cultivate braver, more daring leaders? And, how do you embed the value of courage in your culture?ĭare to Lead answers these questions and gives us actionable strategies and real examples from her new research-based, courage-building programme.īrené writes, ‘One of the most important findings of my career is that courage can be taught, developed and measured. Over the past seven years, she found that leaders in organisations ranging from small entrepreneurial start-ups and family-owned businesses to non-profits, civic organisations and Fortune 50 companies, are asking the same questions: What can we do better? Empathy, connection and courage to start.īrené Brown spent the past two decades researching the emotions that give meaning to our lives. 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. We don't avoid difficult conversations and situations we lean into the vulnerability that’s necessary to do good work.īut daring leadership in a culture that's defined by scarcity, fear and uncertainty requires building courage skills, which are uniquely human. 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.

When we dare to lead, we don't pretend to have the right answers we stay curious and ask the right questions. This is a book for everyone who is ready to choose courage over comfort, make a difference and lead. Leaders are people who hold themselves accountable for recognising the potential in people and ideas, and developing that potential. Leadership is not about titles, status and power over people. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers and culture shifters, she’s showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up and lead. In her #1 NYT bestsellers, Brené Brown taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong and brave the wilderness.

Dare to lead brene brown pdf