I felt the same with 7 Habits (Steven Covey), 12 Rules (Jordan Peterson), Factfulness (Hans Rosling), 21 Lessons (Yuval Harari), Good to Great (Jim Collins), etc. It is one of those books that when you read it and finish, you want to start reading again. I underlined a lot of quotes and felt like I should take a print out and frame some of them. There are so many life-changing quotes in the book to ponder over. The book has a lot of anecdotes, practical examples, and calls to action that it is useful to situations beyond the workplace. Business goals that we achieve are for people and done by people.

Leadership is about bringing clarity, trusting people who work with you, empowering people, seeking constant feedback, making sure that people feel a sense of belonging, investing time ahead in planning and not pointing fingers when things go wrong, giving honest feedback from a place of vulnerability knowing that the relationship might sour, above all, putting empathy as the cornerstone of all the activities. Brené is an exceptional orator and her voice is so soothing and compelling at the same time that you feel like an esteemed teacher is right there with you, talking in person.Īnother reason why I felt happy with the book was that it validated a lot of leadership thoughts and ideas that I had. But I’d really recommend the audiobook for this. I generally prefer a book on kindle or printed since that is much faster to finish than an audiobook even at a speed of 1.25. Throughout the book, people call her Brené and we also end up doing the same I guess. For instance “ BEN: Hey, Brené! Please pull all of the invoices together for me by four o’clock.” (Section 3 - The Armory). Or it may be due to the anecdotes in the book where she puts conversations where people call her Brené. After listening to the audiobook for over 8 hours, you feel like you know the author already. It feels natural to call the author by first name rather than the full name or the last name. It was coincidental that I came across the excellent video on empathy 3 by Brené just when I started reading the book. So, when I chanced upon it recently, I jumped in. In a way, I was primed to read a book by Brené.

In the last few years, I’d come across Brené Brown’s name many times, through Booklists by leaders I revered 2, YouTube feed, Amazon recommendation, etc. The book was excellent and it felt good to know that all the people who spoke highly of Brené Brown were justified in doing so. It feels super inspirational to have finished this book. “Daring leadership is ultimately about serving other people, not ourselves.

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