Humilitas, John Dickson
Humilitas, John Dickson
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Humilitas
A Lost Key to Life, Love, and Leadership

Author: John Dickson

Narrator: John Dickson

Unabridged: 3 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 06/07/2011

Synopsis

Humility, or holding power loosely for the sake of others, is sorely lacking in today’s world. Without it, many people fail to develop their true leadership potential and miss out on genuine fulfillment in their lives and their relationships. Humilitas: A Lost Key to Life, Love, and Leadership shows how the virtue of humility can turn your strengths into true greatness in all areas of life. Through the lessons of history, business, and the social sciences, author John Dickson shows that humility is not low self-esteem, groveling, or losing our distinct gifts. Instead, humility both recognizes our inherent worth and seeks to use whatever power we have at our disposal on behalf of others. Some of the world’s most inspiring and influential players have been people of immense humility. The more we learn about humility, the more we understand how essential it is to a satisfying career and personal life. By embracing this virtue, we will transform for good the unique contributions we each make to the world.

About John Dickson

John Dickson (PhD, Macquarie University) serves as the Jean Kvamme Distinguished Professor of Biblical Evangelism and Distinguished Scholar in Public Christianity at Wheaton College. A speaker, historian, and media presenter, John is the author of more than 20 books, two of which became television documentaries. He also cohosted the documentary For the Love of God: How the Church is Better and Worse Than you Ever Imagined. He is an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Sydney, a Visiting Academic in the Faculty of Classics at Oxford University (2016-2021), and Distinguished Fellow in Public Christianity at Ridley College Melbourne. John presents Australia’s no.1 religion podcast, Undeceptions, exploring aspects of life, faith, history, culture, or ethics that are either much misunderstood or mostly forgotten.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cindy on October 31, 2024

Short book on humility by the self-effacing Australian John Dickson. I would say this is a good business book and one I am considering giving to my sons.......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on September 25, 2017

Dickson tackles the place of humility particularly in leadership, and he explores the origins of humility as a virtue in Western culture. It is in this latter section that his expertise as an historian is to the fore; in the other sections his giftedness in story telling and relating the discoveries......more

Goodreads review by Susan on November 13, 2013

Humilitas is the Latin word for humility. John Dickson began studying the origins of humility in Western ethical thought through a research project he was involved with at Macquarie University. He was intrigued to discover that prior to the growth of Christianity humility was not valued highly. The......more

Goodreads review by Susan on August 24, 2016

I purchased this book years ago after hearing John Dickson speak on the subject at the Willow Creek Leadership Summit. I was intrigued. It's only taken me this long to read it because I've had other things going on and I have read it slowly, underlining and pondering his words. I love the historical......more

Goodreads review by Bill on May 09, 2012

In short, this is a helpful, readable book on a much needed topic. I like a lot of things about this book -- but as a whole it is hard for me to categorise. I think it's great that John Dickson has branched into yet another field, I love that he happily and naturally brings his Christian worldview t......more

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