By Mathew Hayward Published April 5, 2007 6:49 p.m.
Hayward lays it out plainly: “If you are going to have a successful career and life, you are going to have to learn to check your ego.” Using examples such as Buffett and Welch to show that CEOs don’t have to have huge egos to succeed (and Dean Kamen of Segway as an example of hubris at work), Hayward offers ways to keep an eye on your ego while pushing the limits of success.
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About Mathew Hayward | Mathew Hayward, PhD, worked as a consultant with Accenture and an investment banker with UBS. In 1992, he left the corporate world for academia to pursue a doctorate at Columbia University in New York. He is now an assistant professor at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado, and his writing has appeared in The Economist, the New York Times, Harper’s magazine, and USA Today. Hayward is the author of Ego Check: Why Executive Hubris is Wrecking Companies and Careers and How to Avoid the Trap
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