Strong leadership rests on a foundation of humility. Have you noticed how leaders with self-assurance bordering on arrogance fill the news? Such portrayals usually imply that resolute certainty is the ...

The default psychological setting for human beings is an unavoidable self-centeredness. We each stand at the center of our own thoughts, feelings and needs, and thus experience them in a way that we ...

Ego and pride have caused the downfall of many great civilizations, organizations and leaders throughout history. While ego is necessary to motivate progress and achievement, uncontrolled ego ...

Humble leaders can ascend organizational hierarchies through informal career mentoring and building a network of loyal followers in the workplace, according to a study published in the journal Human ...

As a result of his work in the classroom, Adkins has put himself in an excellent position to succeed. Adkins has already been ...

Humility is widely under-rated in most Western cultures, it seems to me. It’s also widely misunderstood — maybe that’s why it’s underrated. Our popular media culture is saturated with themes of ...

Analytical thinking, humility, and reflection predicted greater tolerance to opposing views. Emotional reasoning correlated with closed-mindedness. In A Nutshell Framing conversations as learning ...

A recent paper in Current Opinion in Psychology by Thielmann and Burghart explores the limits of self-knowledge, why it matters, and how we can strengthen self-awareness. In this article, I discuss ...