When you’ve harmed another person, a sincere apology can go a long way toward helping them to forgive you and move on. Science suggests that acknowledging wrongdoing and promising to make amends can ...

Unpleasant things happen at work. Or we make them happen. It's not that we plan to hurt somebody, yet we sometimes do. We might forget to include a colleague in an email chain where their input is ...

The ability to apologize effectively stands among the most crucial relationship skills, yet it remains remarkably misunderstood. Many well-intentioned apologies fail to achieve reconciliation because ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Bruce Weinstein speaks about AI ethics and ethical leadership. This article is more than 3 years old. An apology may just be ...

Have you ever tried to apologize to someone, but the apology backfired and made the situation worse? Have you ever apologized when you really were not sorry? Or has someone else’s apology to you come ...

Apologies are fundamental to a civilized society. Yet so many of us get them so wrong when we try to say "sorry"—or don't even apologize at all. But why? Why is it so hard to apologize? And to do it ...

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So many believe they’re giving an apology when they’re actually giving an explanation. There is a difference. One is from the heart. The other, from logic and ego. If the words “I’ am sorry” never ...