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What does it mean?
Keeping people together requires elders and chiefs to humble themselves and engage directly with the people.
In plain terms
Chiefs and elders must lower their pride to connect with the people.
What can you take from it?
Leaders must humble themselves to unite the people.

Where it applies

  • traditional leadership
  • community mobilization
  • conflict resolution

Putting it to work

  • leaders to engage directly
  • reduce hierarchical pride

Questions to consider

  • How can leaders stay humble?
  • What stops leaders from engaging?

Another view

Traditional hierarchies may resist flattening status.

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