Humble Leadership As A New Form Of Intelligence

Think about it.

“Humble leadership” might seem like one of the biggest oxymoron phrases since “jumbo shrimp,” and that’s potentially true. Although all leadership is really about soft skills, and we all know that without humility people are unable to learn, humble leadership is still fairly rare. We’ve got more bad, bell-ringing managers clogging up companies to a level where we don’t even know what to do. Gallup has said 82 percent of managers end up as the wrong hire. Bad leadership costs companies $144,000 per day. Crappy middle management costs the U.S. $3 trillion/year. These are all very real, very sad things about the state of leadership in America (and the world). Humble leadership ain’t walking through that door.

Maybe it should, though.

Humble leadership and some UVA research

Here’s an article from UVA on “the organization of the future.” It’s long, and there are a lot of psychological theories in there. All told, it’s fairly interesting stuff.

If you get down to the end of the article, it says that it’s adapted from a book called Humility Is The New Smart. Hmmm.

Now, here’s my one major caveat here: a lot of us think artificial intelligence and robots and all that are coming for a good…