Bangalore: We have already highlighted to you in our previous article, the recent controversial resume story of Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson who had to lose his job for the disgraceful blunder that he had committed, that is to lie about his educational qualifications on his resume. Apart from that, you also got to know in that article that there are many top executives who did the same mistake and faced dishonor. However, have you ever wondered that why do these top notch executives lie on their resume? Yes, you must be thinking that Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson had to give up such a flourishing career for being little dishonest. So why did he do so? According to Katherine Reynolds Lewis of CNN money listed below are the reasons that can give you an idea of their dishonesty suggested by Hanft and other experts of leadership.

1.  Insecurity: In today’s ultra competitive business world, many professionals feel insecure as they tend to think that their counterparts are more knowledgeable than them and are more likely to excel than them in their respective careers, therefore they start lacking self confidence and out of the fear and anxiety of getting surpassed by their counterparts, they start lying about their educational qualifications moreover they suffer from inferiority complex that compel them to be dishonest. According to leadership expert Hanft, Scott Thompson lied because he was working under some feeling of insecurity or inadequacy.