Great Leadership

Great Leadership - what does it look like?

What are your thoughts, insights and reactions?

The Most Misunderstood Aspect Of Great Leadership - Forbes forbes.com

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...

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Mary Arnold • This resonates well with me, although the key is at the end - be aware of what, when and why you are surrendering ( or perhaps releasing control). Humility is characteristic of many people widely recognized for their ledeship

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David Ball • Character is destiny. We sometimes praise the modest when we mean to praise the humble. A friend of mine working in an international school for Americans in London was passing some kids in a corridor. One cheeky kid called out to him "Hello Mr Big" as the kids called him that because he is tall. He replied "Hello shorty" and the kid's eyes narrowed and he replied "Just because we are short doesn't mean we aren't mighty." The kid was 10 years old and the comeback immortal. A more modest man would not have evoked that response. Miranda Devine (journalist) describes Humility as "the grandest of the stern virtues that used to be so prized. It is what the ancient Greeks knew to be an essential quality of heroes, a product of courage and self-knowledge.

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