Why the captain needs to be humble with the ranks

It is easy to advise a future leader to develop humility, but how should a leader develop humility? The reader could watch Nestle Chairman Suresh Narayan’s television interview with Shireen Bhan on his three Is of Inayat, Ibadat, Insaniyat. The general perception of and pedagogy on leadership suggest that humility and leadership do not sit well together, though humble leadership is touted as an essential feature of the ‘Tomorrow Leader’. I term this as ‘great relationship leadership’, which is as important as ‘great decisive leadership.’ Since the leader is constantly exercising authority that is derived from power, he or she is most likely unaware of the occasions when narcissism or inadvertent offence has crept into his or her behaviour. That is why the leader needs a ‘psychological mirror’ that reflects back the images of his or her narcissistic behaviour.