7 Bad Habits of Unsuccessful People (Insights From Great Business Minds)

Talented leaders can be brought low by their own success. Self-confidence slides into over-confidence. Good press leads to prideful thinking. Obstinacy, fanaticism, and feelings of invincibility push a competent leader into a hubristic fog. Sydney Finkelstein, a bestselling author and professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, has studied bad decisions and business failures for almost twenty years. Here, he explains how you can avoid the seven bad habits of unsuccessful people.