The virtue of intellectual humility is getting a lot of attention. It’s heralded as a part of wisdom, an aid to self-improvement and a catalyst for more productive political dialogue. While ...
Last week, I took on the subject of humility, mostly by railing against what humility is not. I said humility is not pretending to be unaware of one's strengths and talents, nor is it restraining ...
It was Gordon McGovern’s first day on the job as president and CEO of Campbell Soup Company. In those days 40 years ago, Campbell’s senior leaders typically ate lunch in the executive dining ...
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What do all major world religions have in common? One answer came from the late Joyce Foster, a Benedictine oblate who spent the last years of her very long life writing a book on the virtue of ...
The default psychological setting for human beings is an unavoidable self-centeredness. We each stand at the center of our own thoughts, feelings and needs, and thus experience them in a way that we ...
President Salva Kiir may never be celebrated as a charismatic global figure, but leadership is not measured by volume. His ...
The other day my class was discussing George Herbert’s Humilitie, a poetic dream-vision in which the virtues, personified as court officials, accept “tokens of submission” from beasts and fowls who ...
Arathi Ramappa is an Executive Coach who helps improve performance and decision-making while managing stress through her EASE Approach©. You always hear about how things need to change. People don’t ...
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 ...