Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Scott Hutcheson teaches leadership at Purdue University. In the fast-moving, disruption-heavy environment most of us are currently ...

Step one, admitting the inability to control one’s drinking and the resulting unmanageability of one’s life (A.A.’s Step One: Confrontation With Reality), often leads to a feeling described as ...

Facing a list of your character flaws is often a very shaming experience. Just as the sense of hopelessness that followed the first step (A.A.’s Step One: Confrontation With Reality) is softened by ...