Humility is a virtue that many people admire but far fewer practice. A scholar describes how a professional crisis made him look inward and rethink his concept of success.

Some psychological topics become popular to the point of boredom, such as intellectual humility. "Be humble, and proudly" say psychologists in The New York Times. Get "a lesson in intellectual ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Humility can help your interconnectedness with others snap into focus. deberarr/iStock via Getty Images Plus The default ...

Powerful people are often seen as confident, gregarious and unapologetic — but the most humble people in a workplace can actually carry the most influence, says communication expert Matt Abrahams.

What catapults a company from merely good to truly great? A five-year research project searched for the answer to that question, and its discoveries ought to change the way we think about leadership.

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 ...

“[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 ...

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 ...

There are many traits that define successful entrepreneurs (and successful leaders in general). They’re confident. They’re decisive. They’re calm under pressure. But there’s an underrated quality that ...