Leading with Vulnerability

Unlock Your Greatest Superpower to Trans-form Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization

By: Jacob Morgan

Narrated by: Jacob Morgan

Based on over 100 CEO interviews and a survey of nearly 14,000 employees, renowned leadership thought leader and futurist Jacob Morgan shares candid stories and original research that shows how leaders can tap into vulnerability to transform themselves, their teams, and their organizations.

This book will show you why it's so crucial to lead with vulnerability and how to do it well. You will learn: the difference between being vulnerable and leading with vulnerability; the five vulnerable leader superheroes; what makes leaders feel most vulnerable at work and why; the ROI of leading with vulnerability; the eight attributes of vulnerable leaders; what happens when vulnerability is used against you; how to climb the "vulnerability mountain"; and what keeps leaders from being vulnerable at work and how to overcome it.

Leading with Vulnerability is not just a book to share with your leaders and your coworkers. It's an invitation to a paradigm-shifting adventure. Nothing like this has been written before and, after listening to it, you'll never look at leadership the same way again.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2024 Jacob Morgan (P)2023 Ascent Audio

A biased view of vulnerability

The book had me excited in the first two chapters. A no nonsense view of why we need vulnerability in leadership.

Then the author makes a brief and shocking statement about the current research being done on the topic of vulnerability and you realize that the author uses none of that over 25 years of the most detailed research by Brene Brown. No, he wants to be different and decides to do his own research.

His research is Interviewing 100 --mostly male CEOs -- which, although interesting, feeds into the bias we are trying to remove from workplace culture today.

It is that very unbalanced view of leadership that make this book speak only to one segment of the workplace. So the book is not for every leader. It captures one sided views built on conversations.

Why not use over 25 years of the most cutting research on the topic and then give it your spin??! How powerful would that be?

That realization made the book difficult to finish because the topic is already difficult to understand and implement in our workplace and intentionally removing the research that finally brought vulnerability to light is a missed opportunity to push this important leadership skill further. Yes, these CEO stories are interesting but if you want to understand and actually implement this into your workplace--then this isn't going to do much for you. Use your time and credits elsewhere.