Nitin Nohria, Practicing Moral Humility
Whenever we see examples of ethical or moral failure, our knee-jerk reaction is to say “that was a bad person”. We like to sort the world into good people who have stable and enduringly strong, positive characters, and bad people who have weak or frail characters. So why then do seemingly good people behave badly? Nitin Nohria, Dean of Harvard Business School explores the moral overconfidence so prevalent in society and exhorts us all to practice moral humility.
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ABOUT Nitin Nohria
“Nitin Nohria’s intellectual interests centre on human motivation, leadership, corporate transformation and accountability, and sustainable economic and human performance. He collaborated with XPlane in creating the ‘Paths to Power’ video to generate a discussion of the value and importance of leadership in addressing some of society’s most pressing problems.
He is co-author or co-editor of 16 books. His most recent, ‘Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice’, is a compendium dedicated to advancing research on leadership based on a colloquium he organised during HBS’s centennial celebrations.
‘In Paths to Power: How Insiders and Outsiders Shaped American Business Leadership’, he chronicles how leaders from different backgrounds, some who could be considered insiders and others who were outsiders—rose to power in American business.
This is a companion book to ‘In Their Time: The Greatest Business Leaders of the 20th Century’, which draws lessons from some of the most celebrated American business leaders of the 20th century. The third book in this trilogy of historical studies of leadership is Entrepreneurs, Managers, and Leaders: Leadership Lessons from the Airline Industry.
Dean Nohria is also the author of over 50 journal articles, book chapters, cases, working papers, and notes. He has served as an advisor and consultant to several large and small companies in different parts of the world. He has been interviewed by ABC, CNN, and NPR, and cited in Business Week, Economist, Financial Times, Fortune, New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He and his wife live in the Boston area with their two daughters.”
The VIDEO
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