Dare to Lead
Brené Brown · 2018
Brené Brown distills seven years of research with thousands of leaders into a simple, uncomfortable truth: the boldest leadership skill is the willingness to be vulnerable. This is a practical playbook for trading self-protective armor for the courage to have hard conversations, build real trust, and get back up after you fall.
A research-based modern bestseller on leading with courage, vulnerability, and trust.
Two of the ideas you’ll keep
The Clif summary of Dare to Lead pulls out 7 insights. Here are the first two.
- Courage is teachable, not innate. Brown's research breaks daring leadership into four learnable skill sets, rumbling with vulnerability, living into your values, braving trust, and learning to rise, that you can practice and measure, not personality traits you're born with.
- Vulnerability is the birthplace of courage, not weakness. You cannot do brave things, give hard feedback, pitch a risky idea, own a failure, without exposing yourself to emotional risk. Avoiding vulnerability means avoiding leadership.
The other 5 — and the full 9-minute summary — are in the app.
What’s inside: 8 chapters
The whole summary runs about 9 minutes, read or listened to.
- Armor Down: Why Vulnerability Is the Bravest Thing You Do
- Rumbling with Vulnerability: The Foundational Skill
- Shame, Empathy, and Why Blame Fails
- Clear Is Kind, Unclear Is Unkind
- Living Into Your Values
- Grounded Confidence: Practice Over Bravado
- Braving Trust: The Seven Behaviors
- Learning to Rise: The Reckoning, the Rumble, the Revolution
Finish Dare to Lead tonight.
Read or listen to the full summary in about 9 minutes, then keep the ideas with a minute of review a day. Start with the 2-minute quiz — no card required.
Close to Dare to Lead
-
Big Magic Elizabeth Gilbert Encourages living a more creative, fearless life by releasing perfectionism and fear. -
Daring Greatly Brené Brown Research-based psychology of vulnerability, shame, and courage from a leading shame researcher. -
Creativity, Inc. Ed Catmull Pixar's co-founder reveals that protecting creativity isn't about hiring geniuses, it's about relentlessly hunting the hidden… -
Delivering Happiness Tony Hsieh The rare business memoir that treats culture and customer service not as soft perks but as the actual engine of a billion-dollar… -
Execution Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan The book that named the real reason strategies fail, not bad ideas, but leaders who treat "getting it done" as beneath them. -
Extreme Ownership Jocko Willink and Leif Babin Navy SEAL leadership principles turned into a bestselling, action-oriented playbook for taking full responsibility.