THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Leadership

“In matters of style, swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock. ”
- T. Jefferson

TOPIC OF THE DAY

How to Recognize (and Cure) Your Own Hubris

Confidence is an attribute that every leader needs to embrace and to foster in others. But when confidence goes too far, it can become hubris.

Overdosing on confidence is easy to do. Jim Collins writes about the organizational side of hubris in his latest book, How the Mighty Fall. Stage 1 of organizational failure is "hubris born of success." It "sets in when people become arrogant, regarding success virtually as an entitlement, and they lose sight of the true underlying factors that created success in the first place."

Read on...


LATEST ARRIVALS

Marketing calculator : measuring and managing return on marketing investment / Guy R. Powell