While working with one of our clients, I had the opportunity to observe an interaction between a leader and someone on their team. We had all been working on a project that spanned several months, and ...

Leadership is often associated with assertiveness, decisiveness and confidence. However, a trait that's equally—if not more—critical for effective leadership is humility. As Simon Sinek wisely ...

Tough guy Ernest Hemingway, arguably one of the finest novelists of the 20 th century, was a seasoned student of human behavior. He knew what “works” in bringing out the worst and the best in people.

In recent years there has been a lot of talk (and significant research evidence) that high-level leaders who possess “humility” are more successful than those who lack it. Indeed, leaders who are at ...

Bill Gates champions humility as crucial for success and personal growth. He offers five insightful lessons for children, emphasizing learning from failure, embracing life's unfairness with resilience ...

When I ran into my friend after his first season in the minor leagues — he’d been was drafted after high school by the Pittsburgh Pirates — he had definitely changed. He clearly felt, as he admitted ...

During Jeff Bezos’s tenure as CEO of Amazon, what was the No. 1 quality he looked for when hiring people? Hard work and past accomplishments certainly mattered. But when the then-Amazon boss spoke at ...

When I started college at 19 years old, I was functionally illiterate in English because I studied my formative years in Arabic and Islamic schools in Yemen. I did not know how to write an intelligent ...