In his work Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from 450-year-old Company that changed the World, Chris Lowney lists four pillars of Jesuit-inspired leadership:

  1. Self-awareness: understanding your strengths and weaknesses and what you stand for;
  2. Ingenuity: being able to adapt and accept the reality of change;
  3. Heroism: motivating yourself with desire for excellence but with goals that are bigger than any one person’s ego;
  4. Love: treating people with dignity, recognizing the Others potential and acting on it.

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