Pride always centers on the promotion of self. Examine some ways leaders lead with pride. 1. When you are engaged in a discussion, you resist acknowledging that the other persons idea is actually better than your own. 2. You start to do all the talking, taking too much credit, demanding attention, boasting, showing off, demanding service based on position. 3. You judge the value of an idea by who said it rather than by the quality of the thought. 4. You treat people as too far below you in position or credentials to seek out their input on issues that affect them. 5. Your image become more important that substance and truth. 6. You act as if the rules, judgements, and standards you impose on others should not apply to you because of who you are or the position you hold. 7. Your compensation becomes more important as a mark of success than the ethical and relational price you paid to attain it. 8. Winning and losing become the only criteria you value and character becomes an option. 9. You look in the mirror to find the source of all success and out the window for the cause of failure. Taken from the book Lead Like Jesus
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