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If someone told you that humility is the key to being a more competitive company and influential leader, how long would it take before you tuned out and started waiting for the leadership training to end? As it turns out, humility is one of the ultimate competitive advantages in business. In Jim Collins' Good to Great research, he discovered two unique traits of leaders who moved companies from average performance to great: 1) intense professional will, and 2) extreme personal humility. But while humility is an nice trait, who wants humility if it’s incompatible with winning? For most people, tradition holds that the opposite of excessive ego is humility, when in fact having too little ego is as dangerous and unproductive as having too much. Humility is the equilibrium between the two extremes and catalyst for healthy ego.

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Smith has written two books on communication and leadership. His first two books are published by Simon & Schuster (egonomics) and Wiley (businessThink) in 24 languages and over 50 countries. Smith's writing, speaking and business ideas have received acclaim from Tom Peters, Ram Charan, Marshall Goldsmith, Harvard Business School, Thunderbird, and embraced by such client organizations as Hilton, Disney, Baptist Health Care, Microsoft, Cox Communications, American Express, and State Farm. With degrees in management, psychology and expertise in team collaboration and leadership, Microsoft Live Meeting featured Smith for two years as top leadership faculty. His work has been featured by CBS MarketWatch, The Dallas Morning News, The Arizona Republic, The Irish Times, BusinessWeek, U.S. News and World Report, and Portfolio. Voted as one of the top 100 business thought-leaders in the country, his work has been adopted by several universities across the country as an example of what the real business world is about. He is a founding partner of the leadership training firm G5 Leadership Co.

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