The real priority of leadership: Humility

Humble leadership in practice

1. Judge people by their strengths, not yours.
2. Understand that success depends on understanding, releasing, focusing and developing talent in others.
3. Know yourself through habitual self-reflection.
4. Understand how others perceive you. A disconnect between the way you see yourself and others see you indicates lack of self-awareness.
5. Thank people when they share their insights and provide feedback. Painful feedback is good.
6. Expect people to be their best. The guiding term is “their” best.
7. Create environments that nurture and protect excellence. Expect the most from yourself.

Bonus: The uncomfortable truth of surrounding yourself with people who are smarter than you is you become the dumbest person at the table, unless you’re a know it all.