Sentences with phrase «own hubris»

Success also bred hubris about RIM's position in the market.

Trying to compete at the same cost from such a weak position hints at the same sort of hubris that has laid BlackBerry low over the past few years.

There's also more than a touch of hubris in the idea that the media has somehow «made» Donald Trump what he is, or convinced millions of people to support him.

In a moment of hubris or weakness or lunacy — take your pick — I decided to prove those theories were right.

We can rely too heavily on past returns to predict future performance, seek out information that confirms our beliefs while ignoring counter-arguments, and fall victim to group - think and our own hubris.

That, combined with a streak of hubris, brought a decade - long antitrust battle between the company and the U.S. Justice Department, as well as 20 state attorneys general.

To do so, however, is more than hubris.

Democratic hubris becomes a central reason for Republicans believing in fake science.

The Republican Party's fast journey from debating how to combat human - caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money, Democratic hubris in the Obama years and a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack in the Antarctic shelf, favouring extreme positions and uncompromising rhetoric over co-operation and conciliation.

In fact, it's resonated for me for at least 28 years, going back to a bit of hubris I demonstrated as a medical student watching a distinguished Harvard surgeon perform surgery to remove a patient's gall bladder (back before laparoscopic surgery and keyhole incisions became the norm).

But humans (and readers, and editors) are judgmental creatures, wary of hubris.

Wharton Business School professor Ethan Mollick co-authored a paper on female entrepreneurship claiming that women are defined by humility, and men by hubris.

In a new book, The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty, Nina Munk tells a rich tale of one man's hubris.

What happens next is sad: Those previously humble people become known for traits like hubris and haughtiness, to the point that people can't stand to be around «the leader» anymore.

If you start to veer toward hubris or just plain lie, those bluffs can get you into trouble.

Taymor, the woman whose staging of The Lion King earned US$ 4 billion in box office, is accused of directorial hubris.

Seems everyone has an opinion about what it is that makes Silicon Valley generate so much value and so many crazy start - ups, but I think a lot of those easy explanations are full of hubris and miss the real magic of what is happening here.

The only way you'll succeed in one of these intense environments is if you feel welcome into the space, and it supports an open culture where students encountering setbacks can tackle them without being worried about others having a level of ego or hubris.

His rare combination of hubris and self - awareness enables him to skid recklessly to the edge, stopping just short of the cliff.

His hubris, on full display as he preens and gossips and makes catty remarks about Trump's spray tan and hand size, quite possibly put this man he considers a dangerous buffoon in office.

Budman's move is the antithesis of the world of startup hubris, where you begin with trying to get users and burning through venture money.

It wasn't NASA's «hubris» that caused those deaths, but more mundane, and rather slight, technological flaws, from which engineers learned much.

Branson, we are told, is driven by profit and hubris.

But many in the media gaggle have already found it: Sir Richard Branson's hubris.

«The pernicious payoff of hubris,» Daniel Tisch calls it.

Hubris has made him blind to the perils of space travel, made him recklessly ignore risks and fail to understand all the issues involved.

For its latest Model X sport - utility vehicle, Tesla blamed a components shortage in part on its own hubris.

«Sometimes when we're working with Silicon Valley startups — particularly when they're well funded — the hubris and arrogance is difficult to get through,» he says.

In this Inc. interview he says «Your reputation is all you've got in life» and talks about integrity, positioning, stunts, hubris, and more.

Others, such as Michael Carr, the global co-head of mergers and acquisitions at Goldman Sachs, have said that only thing that could stop the record breaking pace of activity is hubris.

«Everybody loved everything we were doing,» says Jeff Brown, GoPro's SVP of communications, recognizing a classic case of hubris.

Van Stralen: «There was some hubris in involved.

The company has admitted hubris for the Model X in trying to fit in too many complex features into the first version of the car.

It was doomed by Holmes» hubris — the belief that she could do anything and would never need a backup plan.

But RIM's downfall is the result of very human mistakes — complacency, hubris, arrogance — that the current crop of startups needs to avoid repeating in order to succeed.

Failure can also be an antidote to hubris or exaggerated self - confidence.

All of this because Gawker irritated a vindictive billionaire, and crossed the vague line between private and public information involving a celebrity — and, perhaps, because Denton was guilty of an excess of hubris.

One of the things that you realize is that the hubris during years of success can be fatally damaging when the business just goes even slightly sideways.

I think there are many similarities to the dot - com era of hubris that's going on in the marketplace today.

There's a fine line between persistence and hubris.

Certainly, we've seen power - fed hubris affect judgment in politicians, too.

But for all the company's overweening hubris, for all its executives» wealth - maximizing instincts, that assessment leaves a glaring question unanswered.

Or look at this one another way and you'll see that it's hubris to assume we're safe from repeating some of history's stupider moments.

Shedding the «we're the best and we know it» hubris, he said, ranked as perhaps his greatest accomplishment.

Regardless of Apple's true motive in all of this, I can't help but think their hubris hurt them in the way they handled the FBI request.

When a civilization is destroyed by hubris, those who are left behind are forced to rebuild society, this time learning from our past mistakes.

And you can do that, not with hubris or brash posturing, she continues, but by logging the hours and doing the work.

«When we first started to roll out our global terrestrial TV programme, people thought I was nuts, «going backwards», and a victim of my own hubris.

But success can breed hubris, and there are some worrying trends in the first few days of the Trump administration.

For instance, hubris might have contributed to the 2008 global market collapse and recent wars, including the 2003 Iraq invasion, study leader Johnson speculated.