Can Arrogance Make a Company Generate Crisis?

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How would you feel if you met a person who discredits the ideas of others while claiming to have superior ideas? How would you feel if you met a person who blame other people and refuse to take personal responsibility for anything? How would you feel if met a person who rejects feedback? How would you feel if you met a person who is arrogant? Would you feel such arrogance could cause them to fail, or would you think that pride could help them achieve greater success? There is a great quantity of people have been asked about this question many times. When we enjoy the joy of success, arrogance can run amok lately, and we may become arrogant and supercilious? Some people say that pride is an expression of success, it can bring the sense of being superior and the feeling of being greater. While arrogance can negatively impact the success, arrogance can cause a person to achieve more success if a person uses it to help others.
Convincing arguments can be made that arrogance can make a company generate a crisis. Most of the advocates who are of this opinion argue that the business leaders who excess pride could make a corporate crisis, and showing us it is possible to lead to bankruptcy. Joe Cassano is one of the former leaders at American International Group (AIG), he often belittles, ironically colleagues, intolerants other anti views, as well as does not accept others' opinions during his tenure. As Stanley B. Silverman and Russell E. Johnson state in their article about arrogance can be a serious problem in the workplace because, “it is possible that AIG’s crisis would have been considerably less severe or altogether avoided” if Cassano avoids the arrogant behavior (Silverman&Johnson 21). Still, Cassano did not realize his...

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...nd we should not be extremely arrogant when we succeed and be willing to help others in order to achieve more succeed.

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