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Lead with Humility

12 Leadership Lessons from Pope Francis

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Lead with Humility

By: Jeffrey A. Krames
Narrated by: Walter Dixon
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When Fortune announced its list of the World’s Greatest Leaders, the top spot was awarded - not to a captain of industry - but to the new pontiff. In the year since his election, Pope Francis earned that accolade - and more. He has achieved the remarkable: breathed life into an aging institution, reinvigorated a global base, and created real hope for the future.How did a man who spent his life laboring in slums far from the Vatican manage to do this and so quickly? The answer lies in his humility - and the simple principles that spring from it. Lead with Humility explores 12 of these principles and shows how leaders and managers can adapt them for the workplace with equally impressive results. They include:

  • Don’t stand over your employees—sit down with them
  • Avoid insularity
  • Don’t judge—assess
  • Take care of people, not lobbies
  • Go where you are needed
  • Temper ideology with pragmatism
  • Don’t change—reinvent!
  • The boldest course can be the most prudent
  • And morePope Francis’s ability to inspire the world is unprecedented in modern times.

Lead with Humility reveals the power of his methods, and helps anyone lead with grace and greater authenticity.

©2014 Jeffrey A. Krames (P)2014 Gildan Media LLC Christian Living Christianity Leadership Management & Leadership Workplace & Organisational Behavior Workplace Culture Business Pope Management

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i liked how Pope Francis was compared to a CEO or business/economic leader but i also disliked the lack of staunch Catholic faith perspective

edifying insight on leadership

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The narration was very robotic. The paragraphs were interesting but didn’t flow, everything was a bit disjointed. That said, the history of Pope Grsncis was fascinating.

Sudden ending.

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Krames was a lot less objective than I expected. He gives his subject the benefit of the doubt constantly, and assumes an awful lot.

What would have been a more interesting analysis is a critical one, where each leadership decision or controversial tactic was judged from both sides to show the risks and successes involved in Pope Francis' approach.

As it is, the narrative portrays Pope Francis as doing very little wrong and clearly simplifies the nuance of his leadership.

Also - the reference to Zuckerberg and Musk as "humble CEOs" - by virtue of accepting low salaries - was profoundly misguided. How did that argument make it past the editor's quality control? How can these men be considered humble in the same fashion as a "bishop of the slums" who drives a Ford Focus?

Much more biased than expected

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This book seems to have been put together based upon largely mainstream journalism. The leadership principles offered are good however it lacks understanding of the Catholic church, often stating things that are simply not true and then using them to bring out a point.

Poorly researched but some good principles

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