Ambition, the ability to remain dissatisfied with one’s accomplishments, fuels much of the world’s progress and advancements, not to mention conflicts and crime. Indeed, from the Sistine Chapel to ...

Redefining leadership and ambition for the future of work. What if leading better wasn’t about doing more but about leading with intentional ambition? For too long, ambition has been synonymous with ...

Millennials love to talk—and gripe—about ambition. What was once a virtue has become a generational bugbear. Millennial women, raised on Girl Power and rom-coms in which the heroine gets the job and ...

Ambition might be defined as a striving for some kind of achievement or distinction, and involves, first, the desire for such, and, second, the willingness to work towards it even in the face of ...

Ambition used to be a virtue. Somewhere along the way, it became a vice. Once a cornerstone of the American ethos—synonymous with self-reliance, upward mobility, and personal agency—ambition is now ...

When Nadia Meli walked away from the life she had spent years building, she found herself grappling with an unexpected consequence to her attempts at healing: Her ambition began to fade. Meli—a ...

Life coach Kalina Leopold defines ambition as the desire to achieve something. But this doesn’t mean a blanket, single sentence phrase that you say every morning. Or a goal you come up with and never ...

Alastair Blanshard does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Amina AlTai has always been a high achiever. As a child of immigrants, she was told to "keep your head down, work really hard, and if you do that, you'll have everything you want," she tells CNBC Make ...

Ambition isn’t just a trait — it’s a driving force that can move mountains, break barriers, and change lives. On TV, characters with ambition are the ones who keep us hooked, whether they’re climbing ...