How would you feel if you met a person who discredits the ideas of others while claiming to have superior ideas? How would you feel if you met a person who blame other people and refuse to take personal responsibility for anything? How would you feel if met a person who rejects feedback? How would you feel if you met a person who is arrogant? Would you feel such arrogance could cause them to fail, or would you think that pride could help them achieve greater success? There is a great quantity of people have been asked about this question many times. When we enjoy the joy of success, arrogance can run amok lately, and we may become arrogant and supercilious? Some people say that pride is an expression of success, it can bring the sense of being superior and the feeling of being greater. While arrogance can negatively impact the success, arrogance can cause a person to achieve more success if a person uses it to help others.
Convincing arguments can be made that arrogance can make a company generate a crisis. Most of the advocates who are of this opinion argue that the business leaders who excess pride could make a corporate crisis, and showing us it is possible to lead to bankruptcy. Joe Cassano is one of the former leaders at American International Group (AIG), he often belittles, ironically colleagues, intolerants other anti views, as well as does not accept others' opinions during his tenure. As Stanley B. Silverman and Russell E. Johnson state in their article about arrogance can be a serious problem in the workplace because, “it is possible that AIG’s crisis would have been considerably less severe or altogether avoided” if Cassano avoids the arrogant behavior (Silverman&Johnson 21). Still, Cassano did not realize his...
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...nd we should not be extremely arrogant when we succeed and be willing to help others in order to achieve more succeed.
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Former president Ronald Reagan summed up leadership by stating that “the greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things” (Daskal, 2015). Effective leaders inspire people. Leaders provide motivation and the direction to achieve goals; large or small. The character, actions and thoughts of leader can permeate an organization. And often, based upon the organizational culture, one can usually tell if the character, action and thoughts were good or bad. Therefore, I agree that arrogance can lead to jumping to conclusions, which can have a negative impact on the success of projects. This is why Kurt Vonnegut’s leadership quote is so poignant-“we are what we pretend
It seems our definition of success is related to our own individuality. Our view of success is rooted in the outcome of competition among individuals. Americans seem quick to claim that we have each succeeded through their o...
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What is the effect of having too much pride? Can different forms of pride such as familial and social have different consequences? Pride is usually considered to be a positive aspect in one’s life, but too much of it can have adverse results. By observing today’s society, as well as Shakespearean society, it is clear that too much pride in any form can inhibit the ability to accept differences in people and oneself.
Even though pride can be a good thing at times, it is hurtful, it is an emotion that can make or break someone.
Webster defines pride as a “proud behavior or treatment; insolence; arrogance; distain” (Webster’s, 1939). Being proud is acceptable, even good, to a certain extent. Having pride in the way you look, your handwriting, or something you take seriously. People take pride in the little things that are personal and loved individually. Being a little prideful can lead to confidence; however people often mistake arrogance (an exaggerated pride) for confidence. Prideful people seek to prove their superiority in every aspect of their lives Roth provides the reader with a vivid illustration of this exaggerated pride. The initiates in her novel are supplied with multiple opportunities to st...
Thomas Edison once said “nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to a point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That 's not the place to become discouraged.” This quotation implies that even when things may seem difficult, never give up, only work harder to find another way and push through to succeed. This quotation relates to How Great Leaders Inspire Action by Simon Sinek 's Ted Talk. Many companies want to succeed in their business but must use different methods such as the golden circle. This model explains why some people are inspired by leaders, and organizations over others. In Sinecks speech, he also discusses The Law of Diffusion of Innovation which defines mass market success and how achieve it.
In 1297AD, pride was described as “A consciousness or feeling of what is befitting or due to oneself or one's position, which prevents a person from doing what he considers to be beneath him or unworthy of him; esp. as a good quality, legitimate, ‘honest’, or ‘proper pride’, self-respect; also as a mistaken or misapplied feeling, ‘false pride’” (OED 4). This type of pride is personal pride and the image a person must maintain to keep it. A person cannot allow them self to act in such a way that would be demeaning. An example of this would be a drill sergeant getting down with his recruits and performing the same demeaning drills as they are. The sergeant’s years of hard work and service would not be taken seriously if he were to lower himself to the level of their recruits therefore lowering his sense of pride.
Northouse, P. (2010). Leadership: Theory and practice (5th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
Everybody tries to be successful, yet not every person achieves this objective. There are those of us who comprehend that success comes from our individual conduct and there are those that decline to comprehend this idea. Conduct radically influences one's individual success and there are a few elements to call attention to when discussing this. Successful people realize that the establishment of individual and expert achievement lies in understanding yourself, understanding others, and understanding the effect of individual conduct on others.
I have been studying, writing about, teaching and applying the principles of successful living for close to forty years now. These principles are timeless, changeless and there for everyone to apply and benefit from. I have also discovered that the principles of success are often misunderstood, feared, misrepresented and lied about. None more than the principle of self-confidence.
Failure is not merely the reciprocal of success; moreover, it is the shadow of success waiting for the correct path of light to grow and unveil itself. Instead of being melancholy about failing, we should take our failure as an advantage to do the correct thing and succeed. After all, as said by Ellen Degeneres, “It’s failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.” I, along with the billions of other people on this planet, have failed many times in life. However, there are certain failures that can teach us a value so powerful that it can outpower the most preached teachings or morals.