Posts with the ‘Humility’ tag
Many leaders would rather eat a bug than admit to others they made a mistake or expose a weakness. Exposing your own failures is not a sign of weakness. Hiding your failures is! Nobody believes we are perfect. In fact, when we own up to our own weaknesses, we are rarely telling them anything they don’t […]
Don’t play the blame game. Problem finders are everywhere. It does not take a PhD, a MBA or even a GED to be a good problem finder. It takes no skill or advanced education to point fingers. Problem finders usually wallow at the lower levels in organizations and rarely make it past middle management.
What’s a disengaged team look like? Some people are afraid to speak up and challenge the boss. Some people don’t want to put forth the effort. And some just don’t care anymore. As a result, the leader never hears the truth about himself and his ideas. The people either become silent bystanders or self-serving sycophants. […]
Humility or arrogance? As leaders if we believe we are the most important person in any situation, our pride limits our own ability to lead. Our culture seems to celebrate the arrogance of leaders who pound their chests and promote their own accomplishments. But a Leader of Character is a counter-culture leader because a Leader […]
Some people believe that doing their Duty is following directions or adhering to a job description. But actually, having a great sense of Duty, goes beyond those things. President George W. Bush and his predecessors had a different view of their Duty at Christmas than our last two presidents. Read about that here in 500 […]
Very few stories of Humility ever make the news. Sports stars and politicians fight for the spotlight and the media gives it to them. The people we should emulate are the ones who don’t need the spotlight. Sam Rayburn illustrates for us what great Humility looks like. You can read about him here in less […]
I’m fed up! We need someone to talk about good examples of character in action. The press covers the lack of character in politics, sports, and academia like sharks when blood is in the water. They rarely cover stories like Yasutera Yamada. Below is his short story of great Courage in just 500 words.
We all want to follow leaders who exercise Humility. Yet when you see leadership failures, so many of those failures are the result of a leader’s pride. The leader won’t listen to another person’s opinion. The leader refuses to admit they might be wrong. Or the leader is more interested in how they look to […]
Cheating on your wife is more than a mistake. A mistake is when you knock over someone else’s drink – Oops! When a man calls cheating a mistake, he is insinuating he accidentally got naked, fell on top of that naked woman, in a hotel room, after buying her drinks, and turning off his phone […]
There is a reason a teenager’s car insurance payment is double that of older drivers! We don’t come out of the womb as wise decision makers. Let’s face it. We are where we are in life because of the decisions we make. Some people have lives and careers full of regrets. Yet some people seem to […]
