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How To Build Humility, The Magic Ingredient In Leaders’ Success
How To Build Humility, The Magic Ingredient In Leaders’ Success

By Liz Kislik (2020)

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Written by Neil Wainwright
Updated over 2 years ago

Leaders don’t have to agree with their team members’ ideas. But when they don’t acknowledge and respect employees’ dignity, “You start to lose people. They shut down, they disengage, they’re not enthusiastic,” says Marilyn Gist, noted speaker, academic and author of The Extraordinary Power of Leader Humility: Thriving Organizations, Great Results. “They may stay and do what has to be done. But they’re not trusting the environment or you, so you’re not going to get the best that you can out of them.” Here are six ways organizations can cultivate leaders with humility and thereby support employees to give and do their best.

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