Humility as a Leadership Tool

11/01/2016

Humility as a Leadership Tool

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 Humility, in 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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