Commentary: Want to be on top? Here's how being humble can make you a better leader

Humble leaders tend to engage in more informal mentoring, and through that they gain influence and power in terms of promotability, say the authors.Research finds that humble leaders gain respect, prestige and prominence, and they gather a group of followers with high human capital. These experts say: If you want to be more promotable, it may pay to stay humble.

Humble leaders tend to engage in more informal mentoring, and through that they gain influence and power in terms of promotability. They provide career guidance to their proteges and help them to prosper. The measures in the survey included the leader’s humility, informal mentoring, status and promotability. We found that humble leaders earn higher status and enhanced promotability through engaging in mentoring behaviours.But why are some leaders so arrogant if there is a “humility route” to success?

In contrast, humility offers a more stable and less visible route to success. Humble leaders typically achieve their status through fostering growth in others, engaging in mentoring, and creating a network of highly capable, loyal and enthusiastic followers.A great deal of evidence shows that humble leaders outperform arrogant leaders, say the authors.

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