Comments on: Leadership: Humility

By: Arunkumar

Arunkumar — Thu, 26 May 2011 05:12:16 +0000

This is in fact the – success Formula

By: lee

lee — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:46:19 +0000

absoulutly great information here. love the bit on compassion to become a leader. i know the buddhasitva of among buddha’s and monks, has one of the most compassionate ways to show other people ahead of there own corpse of a body. “The way to the bodhisatva”

By: Happytale

Happytale — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 08:58:26 +0000

There are situations where the leader becomes the follower. When that happens he must be humble, respectful, and responsive. It may be difficult to drop the ego. A good leader is a good follower.

By: Scott Wallace

Scott Wallace — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:07:10 +0000

I love it! I have long counseled new leaders to thing about their jobs as enabling others. This relates directly to the heart of humility in leadership. New leaders get hung up on this more that I ever would have thought possible. The first year on the job is largely spent trying to figure out how to exercise POWER. Unfortunately few leaders start with the tools to enable others. Luckily this is learn-able and teachable! Thanks for the article. Resources like these make it easier for us all to coach!

By: Emmanuel

Emmanuel — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:48:05 +0000

Mike this has been a truly wonderful series of articles on leadership both thoughtful and thought provoking

thank you for putting it together.

By: Mike King

Mike King — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:38:18 +0000

@Arswino – You are absolutely right. I totally forgot about that 5th level reference. Yes, of course this isn’t all my own ideas for this series, I’ve learned it only by the willingness of many other great bloggers, leaders, authors and some tough experiences along my journey. I just finished reading “Purpose” on vacation and has many references back to Collin’s awesome book, Good to Great. Well worth reading for any leader, I’ll write up a review for it soon…

@A Friend – thanks for your thoughts on the series and your opinion as well. I certainly won’t argue with you and everyone will have a different opinion as to who they would model a servant leader after. I was careful to preface it (for the exact reason of your comment) with “I personally belief” so I will leave it at, my personal thought. You don’t need to agree, I am fine with that. Your examples have great noble and godly servant hood behind them as well. Thanks for adding your thoughts, I always appreciate additional (whether conflicting or not) points and references from my readers!

@Ross – thanks so much for the feedback and I’m thrilled the series has impressed you to keep it as a reference. Please do download the ebook version once I get it in my resources page in the next week or so.

@Ruth – you threw me off with the title of that book but it sounds like it has a theme of leading people, which obviously I would agree with. Thanks for the added reference.

@Print Service – thanks for your comment on summary of humility. I hope you check out some of the rest of the series on leadership as well!

@Dicki – so true. so true! Many people do not realize what harm they cause when exercising leadership by power. Thanks for keep on coming back to comment!

By: Mike King

Mike King — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:22:23 +0000

WOW everyone. I’m sorry I’ve been disconnected from all of your great comments. I spent the last 2 weeks on the beach in Jamaica for a much needed absolute ban on media/computers/work/etc. It was a joy and for 2 weeks had only a very small hint of missing things.

@rainer – thanks so much for your comment and for stopping by. I hope you check out the rest of the series as well.

@Pushhyarag – thanks for pointing out those bits you liked the best. And I definitely appreciate the feedback on those long bits. With getting this out just before holidays and writing such a long series, I will admit, I didn’t proof read the last couple articles much. I am usually more concise so I’ll do a bit of editing before putting out the ebook version. Thanks for highlighting that to me!

@Alik – thanks so much!! I will definitely ebook it soon now that I’m back in the country…

@CG Walters – thanks for your comments and wise words added. Those 3 certainly fit together well, as the quote indicates.

@Start Blogging – thanks for your comment and thoughts on this series as well! I do appreciate it!

By: Dicki

Dicki — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:22:14 +0000

this is quite a harmful thing to have power over the others, I think the power is needed to master oneself,it is much more difficult.

By: Print Service

Print Service — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:29:03 +0000

Humility — Recognizing that ideas can come from other people, a willingness to change your mind, being able to admit mistakes when you make them, and being willing to learn from the mistakes of others, rather than punishing them, anyway nice article really usefull.

By: Ruth

Ruth — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:31:31 +0000

This is a wonderful article. Too many people equate leadership with having power over others, not empowering them. I've been reading a great book, A Dog's Advice to Leaders by Jo Ellen Roe, where she talks about people skills being one of the most important things a leader can have.