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 ...

In his new book, Ego Check: Why Executive Hubris Is Wrecking Companies And Careers And How To Avoid The Trap, Mathew Hayward, assistant professor at the University of Colorado, shows how executives' ...

Positive emotions play a vital role in fuelling entrepreneurs’ ambition, action and success. By harnessing the power of optimism, passion, and pride, entrepreneurs are motivated to innovate and ...

All of the “best of” business books lists should now include John Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Lost. Although published in 1667, it has remarkable relevance for business, particularly for today’s CEOs ...

People with the Dark Triad personality, who manipulate anyone and everyone to get their way, can easily be regarded as the most toxic of individuals. Even adding the fourth quality of sadism, forming ...

A version of this article appeared in the Spring 2018 issue of strategy+business. If an organization has just one or two people whose power has gone to their head, it can demoralize subordinates, ...

In golden Greece the Periclean playgoer knew by heart the Pride & Fall theme of classic tragedy. Hubris (νβÏis) was the offense of the honest but haughty mortal who thumbed his nose at the gods and ...

Strategy underlies the affairs of national leaders, including how they view and interact with other states — but what if such strategy is borne of self-deception? That’s the thrust of a novel ...