Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. Paperback

recommend to read it

Amazing read definitely challenges your way of looking at things and makes you dig deeper.

Worst book I ever read in my life

It is a very practical leadership book. Easy to understand

It could be written in half of the pages.

A different way of leading using vulnerability. Interesting concepts.

I picked this up in April as part of my ongoing stack of leadership and growth books. What I enjoy about Dare to Lead is how it blends the inspiring side of leadership with practical tools you can actually use. It’s not just theory – it pushes you to think differently about courage, vulnerability and what it really means to lead people. The writing style is engaging and down-to-earth, so it’s easy to read without losing substance. It makes you reflect on your own habits and challenges, and more than once I found myself putting it down for a moment to think about how I could apply it in my own work. For me, books like this are about stretching yourself and seeing leadership in a new light. This one definitely delivers on that. If you’re serious about growing, it’s worth having on your shelf.

Overall: If you have not read something by Brene Brown, then you absolutely need to!! This is a great one to start with and the information presented can be applied to all areas of life. Amazing messages, great writing style, versatile applications and this book will make you a better person 10/10 Summary: A compilation of thoughts and research on what makes an effective leader. She started by asking what people should do differently to lead during our modern times, when “we’re faced with seemingly intractable challenges and an insatiable demand for innovation.” Truly daring leaders, she explains, are prepared to be vulnerable and listen without interrupting. They have empathy, connecting to emotions that underpin an experience, not just to the experience itself. They have self-awareness and self-love, because who we are is how we lead.” The Good: Brene Brown is brilliant. Her writing is no-nonsense, direct, and very applicable in every area of life. I started this book with the intent of learning ways to be a better leader a work but the material can be applied everywhere; as a significant other, as a parent, friend, at work, etc. Her voice and insight is amazing, inspiring, and I learn something new every time I read one of her books. The Bad: How do we get more people in this world to read material like this?? Favorite Quotes: “The courage to be vulnerable is not about winning or losing, it’s about the courage to show up when you can’t predict or control the outcome.” “People are opting out of vital conversations about diversity and inclusivity because they fear looking wrong, saying something wrong, or being wrong. Choosing our own comfort over hard conversations is the epitome of privilege, and it corrodes trust and moves us away from meaningful and lasting change.” “The only thing I know for sure after all of this research is that if you’re going to dare greatly, you’re going to get you’re a** kicked at some point. If you choose courage, you will absolutely know failure, disappointment, setback, even heartbreak. That’s why we call it courage. That’s why it’s so rare.” “We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being. As the gods intended, we are here to become more and more ourselves.”