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Humility as a Leadership Tool
November 1, 2016
Well-behaved children and adults, in many communities, don’t think for themselves.
-Betty Jones, Early Childhood Professional

"I know how arrogance works. Do you?" asks Holly Elissa Bruno in the article Leading with Humor and Humilityin the November/December 2015 Exchange magazine.  "Feeling bad about myself drove me to arrogance; pretending superiority to a troubling situation, I could trick myself out of feeling inferior.  The trick never works; superiority is a lie."  She goes on to describe a very important distinction between leading with humility or feeling humiliation:

"Humility and humiliation look alike, but they are opposite.  Humiliation is feeling flawed to the core.  Humility is knowing I am imperfect and turning my flaws into healing action....  Today I surrender more to learning in the moment, to letting go of (limiting) expectations (for others and myself), and to being open to the moment’s blessing.  Humility allows us a second chance, a sacred glimpse into what is timeless and what matters most.  I am forever a student."





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