Welcome to the Wind Make Give Podcast. This is Ben Kenny today joined with Chad Himes.

Hello.

We're going to talk about a secret to great leadership.

Now, so often, especially in the world of social media, Instagram, Tik-talk, Facebook, hashtags,

in selfies, leaders, companies and individuals struggle with harnessing one of the most powerful

traits of great leadership, which is being humble.

And I want you to know that I think about this all the time.

One, because I'm not inherently a humble person. I have an ego like everybody else if not twice as large and in business we have track records and our track records have been good and for many of us it gives us validity in our life and in our business to talk about those successes and even some of those failures.

I read a book not too long ago that somebody shared with me

and I wrote down a couple messages, not thinking I was going to use it for anything else, but I often do this,

Chad, and one of them was, Pride is the enemy of self-improvement.

Oh, I like that.

Say it again.

Pride is the enemy of self-improvement.

Because when you start getting prideful,

you start thinking that you know everything.

And when you think you know everything, you have nothing to learn so you don't go out

there and try to improve.

Sure.

And a lot of times businesses hit ceilings

because they experience a ceiling created with pride.

In that same book, Chad, it said, you must value self-improvement over self-promotion.

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