This week’s book discussion post is going to take a little bit of a turn. I want you to consider first your reading(How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie) and what you have read as a central theme to your leadership text thus far.
In a separate reading titled- Dare to Lead by Brené Brown she states that-
“Leadership is not about titles, status, or wielding power. A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas, and has the courage to develop that potential.” “The skill sets that make up courage are not new; they’ve been aspirational leadership skills for as long as there have been leaders. Yet we haven’t made great progress in developing these skills in leaders, because we don’t dig into the humanity of this work – it’s too messy.”
Dare to Lead takes a different approach than many leadership books, and likely challenges some of your readings and themes about what makes a good leader as it dives into the human factors that are at the root of all good leadership. It’s likely that there are good leaders all around you exhibiting the kinds of behaviors discussed in this book, consciously or unconsciously.
There are several videos related to the book available online. Find some of them at the links below or by searching in any internet-based search engine.
- “Dare to Lead”: Brené Brown says vulnerability is the “only path to courage” (6 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEnqV_M_Dm4
• The power of vulnerability | Brené Brown (20 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCvmsMzlF7o
• Dare to Lead + LinkedIn = Global Read-Along (set of short Q&A videos by the author) https://daretolead.brenebrown.com/linkedin-read-along-series/
And so, for this week, I want you to compare and contrast the theme of the book “Dare to Lead”- after watching some of the videos here or researching on your own, to your own leadership reading’s theme’s/main components.
Should be at minimum 2 pages long.