Humble Leadership is NOT an oxymoron
Was just reading the Marine Corps Gazette. It is the professional journal for Marines. While the technology of the Corps has evolved since my time the principles of leadership endure.
J Doty and D Gerdes in their Military Review article “Humility as a leadership attribute” from September 2000 maintain when authentic humility is applied to relationships, mutual trust develops and stirs an abiding sense of loyalty and authentic modesty – creating an environment to achieve great things
Writer J. M. Templeto states humility is not self-deprecation…humility represents wisdom.
Leaders across the country selected humility as one of the 26 words to lead by in my new A to Z series on leadership. Humility recognizes that people are more important than things. Leadership is all about people but too many leaders are too task oriented to get it.
Do you?
"I have attended quite a few leadership seminars, and have tried to gather and relate things from each of them, but yours hit all 3 of us with material that relates and for myself commands an internal level of accountability and responsibility in what I do at our company. "
Chris Larente
Construction Superintendent
Park Paving LTD.