Your Humility Should Drive Your Improvement

Are you humble enough to admit that your way of doing things is not the best way?

Are you humble enough to realize that although you are the 'leader' you still have a lot to learn and the organization is counting on you to continuously self-improve?

Now ask yourself:

Don’t kid yourself. Answer these for real.

If you are being pulled by the forces of the organization you are not leading.

Leaders have to be proactive and that includes their own personal development. If they are not they will turn around one day and realize that the organization has grown past their capability. They will no longer be 'good enough' to do the job. We can only hope that there is someone close enough and strong enough to call them out. For the organization's sake.

Now it is every leader's responsibility to put the resources on the table for their teams and give them an opportunity to grow but it is up to them if they want to take a bite. If they don't get better they must go. If you are a senior leader, no one will hand feed you improvement. You have to go find it. If you don’t, you MUST be replaced with someone better. It is that simple.

##My stance is simple: Upgrade yourself or I will upgrade you for you.##

Don’t we owe it to the organization to take that stance?

Are you being fair to the organization?

Are you doing everything in your power to grow yourself? This is about you. Not your department. Not your company. You! If you are really getting better every day your team will be growing, if only through proximity, with you. With that, the organization will get better.

Is there a better way?

The reality is the very best leaders are students first. Students always. They are naturally curious. They question everything and attack their way of doing things every day on a quest to find a better way. They constantly ask themselves: Is there a better way?

Their humility tells them that there is a better way. They believe in their soul that they can better today than yesterday and that they owe it to the world to go find that.