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Dare to Lead
Brown's 2018 book translating vulnerability research into organizational leadership practice — the operational foundation for the BRAVING and daring leadership frameworks.
Dare to Lead is Brown's 2018 book translating two decades of vulnerability and shame research into operational leadership practice. Its contribution is the systematic specification of what daring leadership actually looks like as observable behavior — the four skill sets (rumbling with vulnerability, living into values, BRAVING trust, learning to rise), the sixteen armored behaviors with their daring alternatives, and the implementation practices that allow organizations to cultivate daring rather than merely aspire to it. The book's research base drew on interviews with approximately 150 senior leaders across sectors, supplemented by the applied work of the Dare to Lead™ training program. The framework has become the operational foundation for Brown's engagement with the AI transition, because the leadership challenges AI creates are precisely the challenges the book was designed to address.
In The You On AI Field Guide
The book's publication anticipated the AI transition by several years, but its arguments proved unusually well-suited to it. The four skill sets of daring leadership map directly onto the competencies the transition demands. Rumbling