Dare to Lead cover art

Dare to Lead

Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

 Preview

Get 30 days of Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30-day free trial. Cancel monthly.
Try for £0.00
More purchase options
Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

About this listen

Brought to you by Penguin.

How do you cultivate braver, more daring leaders? And how do you embed the value of courage in your culture?

Written and read by NYT best seller Brené Brown, Dare to Lead answers these questions and gives us actionable strategies and real examples from her new research-based, courage-building programme.

Leadership is not about titles, status and power over people. Leaders are people who hold themselves accountable for recognising the potential in people and ideas and developing that potential. This is an audiobook for everyone who is ready to choose courage over comfort, make a difference and lead.

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 work to align authority and accountability. We don't avoid difficult conversations and situations; we lean into the vulnerability that's necessary to do good work.

But daring leadership in a culture that's defined by scarcity, fear and uncertainty requires building courage skills, which are uniquely human. 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. What can we do better? Empathy, connection and courage, to start.

© Brené Brown 2018 (P) Penguin Audio 2018

 Career Success Leadership Management Management & Leadership Motivation & Self-Improvement Personal Development Personal Success Self-Esteem Business Inspiring Thought-Provoking

Critic reviews

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.
Brené 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.
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.
We asked Brené to bring her work on courage and vulnerability to our Air Force base. This is a tough audience, many of them with significant combat experience. Within five minutes, you could have heard a pin drop. Brené cuts through the noise and speaks to what makes us human and makes the mission happen. Dare to Lead is about real leadership: tenacious, from the heart, and full of grit.
Brené is Google Empathy Lab’s Obi-Wan Kenobi. She has profoundly inspired our product leaders to design in and embrace vulnerability, rather than engineer it out. It’s a critical and transformative act to bring your alive, messy, wholehearted human self to work every day. Dare to Lead is the skillful and empowering Jedi training we have all been waiting for.
Applying the principles from Dare to Lead to my work as a principal has transformed the way I show up with parents, students, and colleagues, and how I lead. Brené’s words, stories, and examples connect with our hearts and minds, and her actionable approach gives us the tools to be braver with our lives and our work.
Brené truly gives it all away in Dare to Lead. Courage is a set of teachable skills, and she teaches us exactly how to build those muscles with research, stories, examples, and new language. The future belongs to brave leaders, and she’s written the ultimate playbook for daring leadership.
All stars
Most relevant
this book is just brilliant. makes you really think not only what kind of leader you are and want to be but also, what kind of person you are and how can you be better at interacting with co workers a d loved ones

brilliant book

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Honest
Great pace
Easy listen and hugely interesting
Lots of practical tools that I can implement

First listen to Brene

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I like the way Brené Brown thinks about what is usually considered the bad feelings in life. Reframing bad emotions by looking at root causes for those emotions is a very valuable life lesson to me, and I hope that I will remember some of the tools presented throughout the book in tough situations where these tools best apply. Life isn’t easy nor great all the time and building skills for tough times is important even for successful and happy people and I feel like this book and much of Brené Browns work can help anyone becoming a fuller, more robust and more intelligent person.
So I recommend this book for everyone with the time to listen actively.

An inspirational perspective on life and leadership

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Practical , tactical and deep . Had the right level of details since I didnt read any of Brene’s previous work

Enjoyed every word

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Soo many takeaways for anyone wanting to become a better leader. Well narrated be Brene Brown. I listened at 1.5 speed which was totally fine and doable.

Would recommend

Great leadership lessons

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews