Leslie John, associate professor at Harvard Business School, has done some deep research into the ways that people self-promote in their professional lives and identified what works and what doesn’t. Another thing I was thinking about in coming into this interview of the problem of how some people are more naturally conveying their successes, and even if we don’t like them for it, at the end of the day, they are conveying the information in a way that those who are more humble are not. ALISON BEARD: And what can organizations do to make sure that people who might feel a little bit uncomfortable promoting themselves have opportunities to do it?