Self-promotion may be key to career advancement but, let's face it, cross that line into shameless self-congratulation and bragging and you'll just turn people off in a major way.

Harvard University doesn’t need self-referential self-congratulation. It needs introspection of the sort Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn once urged of it.

It’s a tribute to journalists’ vanity and self-mythologization that the Pulitzer Prizes still retain some aura of gravitas. Having chronicled them extensively for Columbia Journalism School, I ...

Personal Perspective: It's wrong to think of self-esteem as a quality that depends only on what we say and do. Self-congratulation is no substitute for the kindly regard of others.

Personal Perspective: It's wrong to think of self-esteem as a quality that depends only on what we say and do. Self-congratulation is no substitute for the kindly regard of others.