Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about uniting core values and relationships with work. Perceptions matter in the workplace more than they should and this ...

Yet this mindset stands in tension with the Apostle Paul’s words in Romans 12:3, where he urges believers not to think of ...

When teaching my students about psychological defenses, many of them have a good understanding of the superiority complex. They easily describe the school bully, who enacts a type of superiority in ...

Humility is underrated. As a virtue, it requires taking a modest view of one’s own importance. This doesn’t sound much like a leadership quality. It is, however, widely accepted as the one leadership ...

Patrick Murphy is an executive coach based in New York City and owner of Project Murphy LLC, a boutique leadership development firm. For empathetic and naturally big-hearted leaders, sometimes doing ...

Around the globe, hundreds of millions have been celebrating Holy Week and Easter, a time each year that Christians commemorate the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. In the spirit of ...

Do you filter out the positives? My experience over the years has been that many people reject or minimize positive feedback. Do an experiment. Go up to someone and provide them with a very specific ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Humility is at the heart of good leadership. Commit ...

Many years ago we had staying with us a clergyman to whom I listened with close attention. One day he spoke of someone as “having the rare grace of humility.” I think he must have meant that this ...

Among spiritual qualities, why is humility one of the hardest to practice and yet probably the easiest to imitate? Why do so many politicians and clergy insist that they work not for themselves but ...