5 Top Lessons from the Book “Dare to Lead” by Brené Brown
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1⃣ Leaders as learners, not knowers.
👉 Leaders with a learner or growth mindset model and help their organization avoid perfectionism and foster healthy striving.
A key skill here is curiosity.
2⃣ Lead with Empathy
🤠 Empathy is not connecting to an experience, it’s connecting to the emotions that underpin an experience.
🔹 Sympathy is feel for me and can be condescending. Empathy is feeling with me.
3⃣ Five empathy skills
1. To see the world as others see it
2. To be nonjudgmental
3. To understand another person’s feelings
4. To communicate your understanding of that person’s feelings
5. Mindfulness
4⃣ Leaders Shift from Shame and Blame to Guilt and Accountability
👉 Brown describes that in unhealthy organizations there is “too much shame and blame, not enough accountability and learning.
5⃣ Leaders Practice Self-Management
Brown describes the practice of calm as “creating perspective and mindfulness while managing emotional reactivity
🔹 Sacred pause and widest perspective helps us solve problems with creativity and compassion rather than rigidity and reactivity