Important leadership lesson: stay humble.

Posted in Businesson Dec 8, 2007

Mary Peery, Retired Senior Vice President of Hewlett Packard, said this was the most important leadership lesson ever learned:

Stay humble. Humility keeps you open to learning from any one else. No on EVER has all the answers and if they think they do they’re not a good leader. Over time they will most likely fail and certainly do significant damage along the way.

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Jacob

December 26th, 2012 at 9:40 am

It is too bad that HP has an entity has forgotten this lesson. HP has been consistently releasing sub-par products at full price (HP Touchpad) assuming that it cannot fail simply because of its market dominance.

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