A general who has won many battles is often a poor choice to plan the next war — not because they lack skill, but because their victories have calcified into assumptions. The 14th-century Arab historian Ibn Khaldun observed this cycle with precision: groups rise through *asabiyya* — a kind of fierce, humble solidarity — and fall the moment success converts that solidarity into entitlement and insularity. Leaders who stay dangerous, Ibn Khaldun argued, are those who never stop treating their current position as provisional. For this Sunday, consider your team or household not as something you've built and can now manage from a distance, but as something still being built — which means your role is still being built too. The humble leader isn't self-deprecating; they're strategically open to disconfirmation.

Name one assumption about how your team or family works that you haven't seriously questioned in over a year.

Drawing from Islamic Historical Philosophy (Ibn Khaldun) combined with Leadership Theory — Ibn Khaldun (Muqaddimah, 1377 CE)