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Care to Dare

Unleashing astonishing potential through secure base leadership

By George Kohlrieser, Duncan Coombe and Susan Goldsworthy

307 pages

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Have you ever been led by someone who cared for you like family, and dared you to achieve more than you ever thought possible for yourself, your organization, and even society?

Award-winning author of Hostage at the Table, George Kohlrieser, along with his co-authors Susan Goldsworthy and Duncan Coombe, explain how becoming a secure base leader releases extraordinary potential in others. Care to Dare shows you how to become a Secure Base Leader so that you release your followers from the fears that get in the way of their performance. It shows you how you can unleash astonishing potential by building the trust, delivering the change, and inspiring the focus that underpins sustainable high performance.

Care to Dare will take you on a journey where you will discover your own secure bases, past and present, and determine how you can be a secure base for other people in your life at work and at home.

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Care to dare: Unleashing astonishing potential through secure base leadership
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Надежная база. Лидерство для руководителей высшего звена [Care to Dare]

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This book is part of a series

An exercise to help you learn to inspire people
Care to dare: Unleashing astonishing potential through secure base leadership
Four principles great leaders need to remember
How leaders can become secure bases
Take control of fear and anxiety to be a better leader
Надежная база. Лидерство для руководителей высшего звена [Care to Dare]

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Jossey-Bass

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9781119961574

Надежная база. Лидерство для руководителей высшего звена [Care to Dare]

By George Kohlrieser Susan Goldsworthy and Duncan Coombe
Published by Mann, Ivanov ＆ Ferber ©2015

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