Humble Leadership, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

THREE

Humble Leadership in Creating and Building Organizations

Founding a new organization, or a new group within an existing organization, has always been the quintessential act of leadership. Within those new groups, visionary individuals then create many of the better products, services, values, and ideas that then help enterprises survive and thrive. What is unique about inserting the principles of Humble Leadership into the founding and creating process is that the leader, in launching the whole process with others, embraces that they cannot do this alone.

As the examples below highlight, a successful humble leader faces systemic problems with situational humility and recognizes that the complexity and fluidity of the work environment requires ...