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During the length of your career as an executive leader, you will most likely have seasons of extreme confidence when you seem to be cruising along and doing everything right. Then suddenly, you’ll ...

In other words: we keep dreaming of an idyllic world in which we’d pick leaders, managers, and politicians on the basis of their humility, while here, in the real world, we continue to mostly select ...

How does one become an effective CEO? Unfortunately, there’s no manual or detailed step-by-step guide to help you out. In Silicon Valley, where my company BlueVine is based, that question has been ...

Whom would you trust more: an expert who seems to have all of the answers or one who admits what they don’t know? We have spent the past five years studying that question and the many ways people may ...

The other day I was in Los Angeles being deposed by the attorney for a well known person in the entertainment industry. His ex-wife had hired me to conduct a case file review, and I had concluded that ...

Confidence is something we all admire. It’s not about being the loudest person in the room or having all the answers. It’s more about being comfortable in your own skin and knowing your worth without ...

There's a common stereotype that claims doctors are overly confident. That's actually true—it takes confidence to save a human life. But, having confidence doesn't equal to being high and mighty.