CONCEPT
Daring Leadership
The practice of leading through vulnerability rather than around it — the daring alternative to the sixteen armored behaviors Brown's research has catalogued.
Daring leadership is the operational counterpart to armored leadership — the practice of leading through vulnerability rather than defending against it. Brown's Dare to Lead framework identifies four skill sets that constitute daring leadership: rumbling with vulnerability, living into values, BRAVING trust, and learning to rise. Each skill set is teachable, measurable, and — critically for the AI transition — more predictive of organizational performance than the technical sophistication of the tools deployed. Daring leadership is not a style or a disposition. It is a set of practices that leaders either do or do not do, and that subordinates either do or do not experience in their daily working lives.
In The You On AI Field Guide
The AI transition creates conditions that specifically test daring leadership. The leader navigating the transition must admit what she does not know, acknowledge the legitimate fears of her team, model the emotional regulation the moment requires, and resist the pressure to perform confidence she cannot earn. Each of these actions is vulnerable. Each violates the implicit norms
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