{"id":2683,"date":"2016-03-20T18:19:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T22:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/?p=2683"},"modified":"2016-05-17T19:23:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T23:23:37","slug":"three-minute-leadership-on-the-joy-of-humility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/2016\/03\/three-minute-leadership-on-the-joy-of-humility\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Minute Leadership: On the Joy of Humility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Sometime, if we are really lucky<\/em>,\u201d writes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erica_Brown\">Erica Brown<\/a>, \u201c<em>someone will put an arm around us and remind us how unimportant we are<\/em>.\u201d Humility is one of the beautiful pillars of great leadership that provides the foundation for extraordinary\u00a0<em>being<\/em>, a\u00a0<em>being<\/em>\u00a0that is open to other\u2019s ideas, inviting and respectful of diverse perspectives and one that displays its vulnerability in a willingness to learn.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/G._K._Chesterton\">G. K. Chesterton<\/a>\u00a0said: \u201c<em>Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great thing from the valley; only small thinks from the peak<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In her book,\u00a0<em>Take Your Soul to Work<\/em>, Brown shares a lesson from Hasidic wisdom on learning humility. The wisdom states:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou should always carry two notes in your pockets. In one pocket, carry the words, \u2018For me, the world was created.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In the other, carry the words, \u201cI am but dust and ashes.\u201d Your leadership lies between these pockets of power and humility.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On your magnificent journey, remember the gentle counsel of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ralph_Washington_Sockman\">Ralph W. Sockman<\/a>: \u201c<em>True humility is intelligent self-respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>What a magnificent reminder humility gives to great leaders<em>: \u201chow far we have come short of what we can be.<\/em>\u201d There is so much more we have yet to discover in ourselves and those whom we serve, and humility helps to free ourselves in finding these wondrous gifts.\u00a0\u00a0The best is yet to come.<\/p>\n<p>Have a beautiful day and a magnificent week!!!<\/p>\n<p>Mike<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2476 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE.jpg\" alt=\"MIKE\" width=\"188\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE.jpg 188w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE-88x88.jpg 88w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning \u201cSometime, if we are really lucky,\u201d writes\u00a0Erica Brown, \u201csomeone will put an arm around us and remind us how&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-three-minute-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2684,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions\/2684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}