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LEADERSHIP

The Challenge of the Hubris Leader

A leadership warning conveyed through a single word

Hubris is a great sounding word, don’t you think? It’s meaning however is not that appealing. According to the dictionary hubris is:

“Excessive pride or self-confidence.”

For context, the example the dictionary uses to explain it is: “the self-assured hubris among economists was shaken in the late 1980s”

Hubris is a Greek word, first recorded in 1884. I’m no expert, so I’d invite George, our Greek-Aussie illuminator for his thoughts on this.

Hubris is a classical word, summed up by another word — danger. Especially for those who’ve experienced success. Hubris is also defined as “insolence or arrogance resulting from excessive pride.”

Hubris in Business

In the business world, Hubris can be lethal to the leader and followers, a threat to a common purpose — A social cancer.

The evidence is all around us.

You know what I’m talking about. Tabloids are awash with examples of times when hubris brings a leader to their knees:

Billionaires jailed for social misbehavior
CEOs ousted by rebellious stakeholders
Successful lives ruined by self-defeating behaviors
National figures blighted by prejudices that make its way into a public forum
Political, religious and labor leaders, pilloried for misappropriating finances and worse, people
Celebrities who succumb to overindulgence, substance abuse

As followers, if we need to remind a leader of such painful, gory stories, we’re wasting our breath. These leaders are blind.

Read The Warnings

Every type of hubris brings its own warnings. Individuals from the examples above were once in exalted positions, loved, praised, followed. Their self-fulfilling success drowned out early warning signs, up to the moment immediately before their downfall. Triggering an irreversible chain of events.

Akin to an avalanche — unstoppable.

The Devastating Impact of Toxic Leadership

The Irishman — What Lessons Can We Learn From Scorsese’s Latest Production About The Dark Triad Of Leadership

medium.com

Courage

This brings courage to the fore. If ever courage is called for, its when followers observe misdirection or ethical transgression. At these moments, followers must confront their supreme leader— their over-confident masters at the wheel, at the pinnacle of their career, but few do.

Followers are morally obliged to tell their leader when their million dollar yacht is about to run aground — Sink unless radical changes are in train.

Delusion

Silence or ignorance is not a valid argument for either party. No court of law will accept this. Know this — silence is a form of participation.

Do You Know What Toxic Followership Looks Like?

Be careful who you choose to stand behind you

medium.com

Be Great

Great leaders empower others to be courageous. The type of followers they need in their crew, the very people who will save them from disaster.

Followers are a leader's life raft in times of turmoil.

Courageous, ethical loyalty are traits beyond parallel in the world today, but rare. Yet these are very people who we need to lead us in the future.

A New Style of Leadership Is Emerging

Startup Entrepreneurs are reinventing leadership.

medium.com

“To assume a persons’ motivations, life experiences or self-identity may, at best, demonstrate one’s ignorance and, at worst, display one’s hubris.”― Tristan A. Star