Dare To Lead Quotes
"Time is, hands down, our most coveted, most unrenewable resource."
"Effective speaking is about the unpredictable and uncontrollable art of connection."
"I picture people without the armor of their titles, positions, power, or influence."
"Before I go onstage, I whisper the word people, three or four times to myself."
"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek."
"The courage to be vulnerable is not about winning or losing, it’s about the courage to show up when you can’t predict or control the outcome."
"We avoid tough conversations, including giving honest, productive feedback."
"The most important of the five dynamics that set successful teams apart was psychological safety."
"Reflecting on the key learnings, all of us owned our parts and talked about how we would incorporate those learnings going forward."
"Joseph Campbell’s lesson was that when you find the courage to enter that cave, you’re never going in to secure your own treasure or your own wealth; you face your fears to find the power and wisdom to serve others."
"The importance of using the right language to talk about hard things and tackle tough subjects."
"Loneliness is such a hard thing for many of us to admit."
"It doesn’t bring me personal joy, this is not really what it is about."
"Leaders must either invest a reasonable amount of time attending to fears and feelings, or squander an unreasonable amount of time trying to manage ineffective and unproductive behavior."
"The greatest barrier to true belonging is fitting in or changing who we are so we can be accepted."
"If we want to live a life of meaning and contribution, we have to become intentional about cultivating sleep and play."
"The credit goes to the person in the arena—and the greatest arena in a world overrun with fear, criticism, and cynicism is vulnerability."
"I don’t understand what’s happening. I don’t understand."
"Unwanted identities are characteristics that undermine our vision of our ideal selves."
"Illness is weakness. Not in other people—in other people it’s human and okay and we should support and help."
"You can’t win this fight by being tough. You can’t fight your way back."
"Shame is universal and one of the most primitive human emotions that we experience."
"Shame drives two tapes: 'Never good enough.' and 'Who do you think you are?'"
"Empathy is not connecting to an experience, it’s connecting to the emotions that underpin an experience."
"When I began my daring leadership journey, I was a successful school leader."
"Teaching me how to practice vulnerability, increasing my self-awareness, and giving me the tools to have tough conversations."
"People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care."
"I no longer check my personal life at the door."
"When I lack self-awareness... I limit the perspective and insights that I can share."
"Being true to who I am as a person... has given me the opportunity to lead in a deeper, more meaningful way."
"Values are principles or standards of behavior; one’s judgment of what is important in life."
"Living into our values means... we practice them. We walk our talk."
"We have only one set of values. We don’t shift our values based on context."
"Trust between managers and employees is the primary defining characteristic of the very best workplaces."
"I know I’m ready to give feedback when I’m ready to sit next to you rather than across from you."
"The most important seats in the arena... are reserved for empathy and self-compassion."
"I’m brave enough to listen. I don’t have to take it all in or add it to my load, but I’m brave enough to listen."
"Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; it’s choosing what’s right over what’s fun, fast, or easy."
"I don’t know either, but it’s the number of days we’ve been together, and in that number of days, not once have I ever come home and seen dinner on the table. Not once."
"When we cook dinner, we normally do it together."
"If you put one rising skill into practice, start with this one. It’s a game changer."
"You are so far under the water, you can’t even find your way up right now."
"I’m just so overwhelmed, and I don’t know what to do next."
"I’m just hungry. I said it because I’m hungry."
"You make yourself the center of something that has nothing to do with you."
"When we have the courage to walk into our story and own it, we get to write the ending."
"The reckoning is as simple as that: knowing that we’re emotionally hooked and then getting curious about it."
"In the absence of data, we will always make up stories."
"Stories based on limited real data and plentiful imagined data, blended into a coherent, emotionally satisfying version of reality, are called conspiracy theories."
"The greatest challenge in developing brave leaders is helping them acknowledge and answer their personal call to courage."
"We fail the minute we let someone else define success for us."