About the book
A leader, in Brene Brown's definition, is anyone who takes responsibility for spotting potential in people and ideas and finds the courage to develop it, whatever their title or status. Drawing on two decades of research into emotion and experience and seven years with leaders and teams around the world, she takes up a question she heard from startups, family businesses, nonprofits and Fortune 50 companies alike: how to grow braver leaders and build courage into a culture. Brown argues that daring leaders stay curious rather than pretend to know, share power, face hard conversations and lean into vulnerability when needed. She treats empathy, connection and courage as human skills that machines and AI cannot easily match.
Sheryl Sandberg praised it as a practical guide to courageous leadership built on decades of Brown's research, and Tarana Burke said it offers honest, practical tools for picking courage over comfort.
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This book has 3 recommendations
Sheryl Sandberg (COO/Facebook)
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.
Ed Catmull (Co-Founder/Pixar, CEO Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios)
Brene 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.
Tarana Burke (Founder/The Me Too movement)
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.
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