Ambition is a predictor of success. But according to a new study, the motives behind it can also lead to lying and cheating.

Don't compare ambition levels, instead focus on the relationship and if your personal needs are being met by this person. Ask yourself, “Is my ambition a problem for this person?” If yes ...

I learned this the hard way in 2014, when a “mentor” (in quotations because she hardly was) said to me in frustration, “Your ambition scares people. It scares me. You need to tone it down.” ...

The paper is published in the journal PNAS Nexus. The authors found, as expected, that leadership ambition increases self-ratings of effectiveness in a leadership role. That is, leaders with high ...

Power was not what she craved for. Service to the people was her only motive and her ambition. After all her father, Sir Leo Fernando, one of Sri Lanka’s richest men in the past century, was a Member ...

In this case that would be me, and the many others like me who couldn’t locate their vaunting ambition with both hands if they tried. I watched, baffled, as people at university, and then after ...