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5/11/2017 |
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How and Why to Embrace Vulnerability |
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How and Why to Embrace Vulnerability by Catherine Iste Why would you want to be vulnerable at work? As a woman, it is certainly not an approach I would have ever embraced — at least not openly in the office. But for skeptics like me, there are benefits to understanding why and how to embrace vulnerability, even at work. Brown, Sandberg ... We have seen a few public examples of vulnerability enter the mainstream over the past five years. Brené Brown's Ted Talk (see above) has been viewed over 29 million times, and more recently Sheryl Sandberg has written a second best-selling book that is layered with lessons on the value of embracing vulnerability. But what does it mean and why should we care? It means something different to everyone. It could be anything from confessing a less-than-stellar decision to the firm's employment attorney to sharing a personal challenge with the entire organization at the annual staff meeting. The first step in understanding the importance of vulnerability to successful leadership is comprehending what it means to each of us, at this moment in our careers. And? Like any other path to professional growth, acknowledging the starting point is the most important step. The second step is figuring out a realistic goal based on that starting point. In other words, if getting to this point in the article is a struggle because the word vulnerability is so annoying, then the goal might simply be to find how it could be a valuable trait, even for someone else. Read full article on MultiBriefs.
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