Hubris and humility

In a recent piece in the Harvard Business Review Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic revives the Peter Principle (though he doesn't mention it), asking a number of questions about why more men rise to senior positions. The piece - and one of the academic papers linked to it - takes female 'humility' and opposes it to male hubris. Humility is a more positive way of expressing Paula Principle Factor 3 - lack of self-confidence - and the difference between the positive and negative expressions is worth discussing. But 'hubris' is an even more interesting term. TC-P argues that we are often unable to see the difference between competence and confidence. So people -…
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