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Care to Dare
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Care to Dare

Unleashing Astonishing Potential Through Secure Base Leadership

Jossey-Bass, 2012 plus...


Editorial Rating

7

Qualities

  • Innovative

Recommendation

Business leaders should be “secure bases” for their employees – providing security and protection while challenging them to explore and take risks. Consultants George Kohlrieser, Susan Goldsworthy and Duncan Coombe urge leaders to remain calm in emotional situations, recognize others’ potential, stay positive and be accessible. The familiar theme that caring executives foster an engaged, committed workforce has been discussed in other business books. However, these authors take the concept further by adding examples of leaders who dared to make a difference and offering useful advice for developing new skills. getAbstract recommends their insights to executives, department heads, team managers and other leaders, particularly new ones.

Take-Aways

  • “Secure Base Leaders” provide both “caring and daring.” They care about their staffers and challenge them. Both aspects are necessary for success.
  • Secure bases can be people, events, goals, ideas and more; people are often the strongest secure bases.
  • “You can only be a secure base for others when you have...secure bases yourself.”

About the Authors

George Kohlrieser leads the High Performance Leadership Program at the International Institute for Management Development in Switzerland. Former Olympic finalist Susan Goldsworthy owns the Goldswolf & Associates consultancy. Ashridge Business School teacher Duncan Coombe consults for the Fowler Center for Sustainable Value.


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