A good servant is humble.
- An employee is a servant and servanthood is powerful. A good servant is humble.
- Serve unobtrusively and don’t be a threat.
- As an employee you’re a guest. Someone else built the company that employs you
- It took time, energy and the benefit of many mistakes and consequent lessons to grow and cultivate it to a point where it can support you and those you love and lead
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Never outshine the master means don’t look better than your boss. It sounds simple but gets more interesting the better you understand it. Essentially it means to be humble.
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