Be Ambitious AND Humble
Keith Ferrazzi has a good post summarizing a study IBM recently did to identify the traits of their highest impact employees.
Their findings were very interesting. Here’s how Ferrazzi summarizes them:
The term originated in an IBM study that sought to identify the traits of their most high-impact employees. Turns out that ambition alone is mediocre; ambition plus intellectual humility is the winning combination.
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This was a finding in “Good to Great” also. Collins noted that every leader of a “good to great” company was humble about their own influence in making the company great. Really good to think about.
[...] Be ambitious AND humble Matt Perman highlights some fascinating research on high-impact employees from IBM. “Turns out that ambition alone is mediocre; ambition plus intellectual humility is the winning combination.” All of which adds a new word to our vocabulary: HUMBITIOUS! [...]