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Humble Leadership in Transforming Organizations

Humble Leadership in large, mature organizations can create change in any direction and from any leverage point. The key difference, compared to the start-up and formation examples described in the previous chapter, is that for the more established organizations the cultural context is much more complicated. Layers of convention directly and indirectly impact any intentions to develop something new and better, and the transformation must happen not through the founder simply implementing their own ideas but through the evolution and iteration of the existing culture of the mature organization.

When an established organization begins to falter in its fundamental functions, it typically either ...

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