Stop Playing Safe: How To Be Braver in Your Work, Leadership and Life

It’s the chances you’re not taking that are costing you the most. Today’s culture of fear has magnified our sensitivity to risk. Yet it can keep you living too safely; holding you back from taking the very actions required to enjoy a more (not less) secure and rewarding future. In this fully updated edition of Stop Playing Safe, Dr Margie Warrell combines road-tested advice from trailblazing leaders, new research and fresh insights to seize the opportunities that lay beyond your ‘safety zone’. Margie’s practical wisdom will help you: get ‘on purpose’ and unlock the potential fear has held hostage upgrade your mental maps to get unstuck and thrive under pressure transform your toughest challenges into your greatest growth nail those hard conversations you’ve been avoiding be a braver leader who emboldens others to think bigger, learn faster, and accomplish more. It’s time to act with courage. The life you most want is riding on it. ‘In today’s play-it-safe culture, this is a must-read for anyone who wants to take smarter risks that elevate themselves and others to higher ground.’—Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers50 World #1 Executive Coach & Leadership Thinker