Twenty-seven years ago this month, one of my first managers, Ann, shared something with me that changed my career and life for the better…

In coaching me on how to work with my agency, she said: “They don’t work for you, you work for them.”

It blew my mind at the time, but eventually it made sense. I used it to great success and continued to find new ways to be a servant leader throughout my career.

I’ll bet you can similarly rattle off a phrase or two that made a big difference in your work+life. But only now do I understand why I was able to listen back then, and how wise words can take hold in us today.

When we let the walls of our ego—our defenses—come down, the most valuable truth eventually finds us.

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