Title: 4 Reasons Humility is a Cardinal Virtue of Servant Leadership
Headings: 4 Reasons Humility is a Cardinal Virtue of Servant Leadership
4 Reasons Humility is a Cardinal Virtue of Servant Leadership
Content: Great loyalty comes when followers feel the leader “is one of us.” Humility inspires followers to trust leaders. As the saying goes, “humility is not about thinking less of yourself, it’s about thinking of yourself less” – that is, humility should not be confused with a lack of self-confidence or insecurity. Quite the contrary, self-confidence and self-security are often displayed most authentically through humility. Humility is valuable because self-confident and self-secure leaders tend to inspire great trust in their leadership. Humility is related to sustainable organizational excellence. Jim Collins saw a pattern in the research behind his book, Good to Great: On one hand, a company might show a leap of performance under a “talented but egocentric leader,” only to decline in later years. On the other hand, a company with a humble leader was more likely to sustain greatness after that leader departed. In the latter case, it seemed that the humble leader imparted greatness to the company.