Document Type

Report

Key Takeaways

• More humble CEOs lead to executive leadership teams that collaborate better, jointly make decisions and have a greater shared vision. • Executive leadership teams have lower pay disparity when the CEO is humble. • More humble CEOs increase the likelihood that executive leadership teams will be able to adapt both exploration and exploitation strategies and this ambidexterity is associated with higher firm performance.

Publication Date

2015

Source

Ou, A.Y., Waldman, D.A., Peterson, S.J. (2015). Do Humble CEOs Matter? An Examination of CEO Humility and Firm Outcomes. Journal of Management, In Press.

Disciplines

Business

Copyright

© 2015, University of South Carolina

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