Great Leadership - what does it look like?
What are your thoughts, insights and reactions?
I was recently asked what I consider to be the most misunderstood aspect of great leadership; in other words, what makes great leadership great? What immediately came to mind is not only misunderstood, but it also happens to...
It has been the mainstay of Christian societies and central to the Protestant ethic, the core value of people who built great wealth and created moral capital for future generations, the antidote to hubris.
Modesty is a strangled, anaemic version of humility that has been bleached through the acid of political correctness, excessive tolerance and gender neutrality into a modest little morsel of itself.
CS Lewis once wrote in his essay The Weight of Glory, that: “Perfect humility dispenses with modesty. If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.”"
Surrender, as it is described in leadership terms, reminds me of humility