25. Feed Your Healthy Ego
Learning to be a leader is the same process as learning to be an integrated and healthy person.
—Warren Bennis
High self-esteem is our birthright. It is the core spirit inside of us. We do not need to pass a battery of humiliating tests to attain it. We need only to drop the thinking that contaminates it. We need to get out of its way and let it shine, in ourselves and in others.
Masterful, artful, spirited leadership has ways of bringing out the best and the highest expression of self-esteem in others.
But it starts at home. If I’m a leader, it starts with my own self-confidence. We human beings find it easier to follow self-confident people. We are quicker to become enrolled in a project when the person enrolling us ...
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