Twelve ways to keep your ego in check :
- Monitor the danger sign of a runaway ego
- Realize that your success depends on the efforts of others.
- Remove self-serving and egoistic expressions from your language.
- Stop talking and start listening.
- Study the best “balancing acts” you can find.
- Place your stature in context
- Identify the motive for self-aggrandizement.
- Learn to laugh at yourself
- When you have offended or embarrassed someone, apologize.
- Associate with many different kinds of people.
- Serve the downtrodden.
- Become a servant leader.