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 ...

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 ...

Relationships require care and attention if they are to remain healthy. This is true regarding relationships between individuals, and those between an individual and a group (for example, within a ...

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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“I owe you an apology,” I told my coaching client. I’ve been apologizing a lot lately. Not because I’ve screwed up more than usual, but because I read a book that taught me how to apologize better. Dr ...