With Piers Morgan as one of the humbler executives, no tower would have been tall enough to accommodate the competing egos.
As a humble chief executive, so long as his company prospers, he can relax with his pet ferrets in peace.
With time, more stockholders and boards of directors will recognize the growing body of evidence that humble and compassionate executives are rewarded with greater employee commitment.
Few executives anywhere push their style so forcefully, let alone at an outfit like HP, a place so low-key and humble that Japanese executives are shameless self-promoters by comparison.
Unfortunately, only one in four of the CEOs in the study were described by their executives as humble.
The event, held at G.M.'s proving grounds outside Detroit, was as humbling for some executives as the months of debate over the company's federal bailout.
According to David R. Humble, eDiets.com's chief executive, the company has offered paid subscriptions to the site since it began operating in late 1996.
The stock of Jim "Good to Great" Collins is also still high; he will at least remind a downcast chief executive that the humble life to which he has been reduced is more likely to result in success than his old imperial ways.
Fortune features a regular column that profiles an entrepreneur or executive from their humble beginnings – you can't help but get a burst of energy from this profile of Raegan Moya-Jones, who launched a startup while working full-time and pregnant.
After his playing career, Humble worked as a bank executive and at an office supply company.
