We • Overestimate our contribution to a project • Take credit, partial or complete, for successes that truly belong to others • Have an elevated opinion of our professional skills and our standing among our peers • Conveniently ignore the costly failures and time-consuming dead-ends we have created • Exaggerate our projects’ impact on net profits because we discount the real and hidden costs built into them (the costs are someone else’s problems; the success is ours)
