Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a behavioral statistician sharing my research in leadership development. Is humility a strength or a weakness in leadership?

When you sit down to write a paper for an academic journal, you find yourself at the intersection of two social roles. You’re an academic, which means you need to operate within the constraints of ...

Arrogance doesn’t arrive with a warning label. It creeps in on the back of success, silencing dissent, shrinking curiosity and replacing facts with certainty. The result is predictable: blind spots ...

Consider individuals in your network who display significant arrogance and pride. Do they inspire trust? These traits are detrimental to trustworthiness, conflicting with qualities like ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the psychology of leadership, tech and entrepreneurship. When we tell someone to “fake it till you make it”, we ...

In an essay in The American Interest (August 28, 2019) author David Blankenhorn writes: “We live in the age of arrogance — an unforgiving, intolerant, anger-stoked age of entrenched confirmation bias ...

The moral life unfolds between humility and autonomy. Should we view ourselves as limited dependent beings, who must accept our mortality and fragility? Or should we view human beings as free agents, ...

In one sense, tech barons like Sam Altman at ChatGPT and Mark Zuckerberg at Meta are building literal know-it-alls with “superintelligent AI.” Even now, ask AI any question, even the most unanswerable ...