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 ...

Hossam Badrawi , Monday 24 Nov 2025 Hossam Badrawi, a prominent physician, politician, and former head of the OB/GYN department at Cairo University’s Medical School, reflects on how self-confidence, ...

Ego and pride have caused the downfall of many great civilizations, organizations and leaders throughout history. While ego is necessary to motivate progress and achievement, uncontrolled ego ...

Humble leaders can ascend organizational hierarchies through informal career mentoring and building a network of loyal followers in the workplace, according to a study published in the journal Human ...

Humility and self-doubt can look similar on the surface — both involve staying quiet, avoiding attention, or downplaying your achievements. But they come from two very different places. Humility is ...

In the complex and ever-evolving field of sustainability and social performance, the journey toward professional excellence is one of continuous self-development guided by the principles of humility ...

Humility is widely under-rated in most Western cultures, it seems to me. It’s also widely misunderstood — maybe that’s why it’s underrated. Our popular media culture is saturated with themes of ...

“[O]ur picture of ourselves has become too grand,” Iris Murdoch lamented in 1997. “We have lost the vision of a reality separate from ourselves.” Today, humility is considered a vice in many corners ...

"Christian humility is not the virtue of saying, 'I do not serve for nothing' and hiding our pride there, no, no! Christian humility is telling the truth: 'I am a sinner, I am a sinner'. Telling the ...

It is a common charge that religious adherents cannot be intellectually humble because they believe they possess of divine revelation. But even members of deeply conservative religious groups can ...