Group & Organization Management 2015, Vol. 40(5) 591–598 © The Author(s) 2015 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1059601115604753 gom.sagepub.com Editorial Riddle Me This: What Do Courage, Rhetoric, Neuroscience, Socialization, Revenge, and CEO Personality Have in Common? Answer: Outstanding 2014 GOM Articles William L. Gardner 1 As Group & Organization Management’s (GOM) “Aims and Scope” state- ment describes, GOM publishes the work of scholars and professionals who extend management and organization theory and address the implications of this for practitioners. Innovation, conceptual sophistication, methodological rigor, and cutting-edge scholarship are the driving principles . . . The journal provides an open forum for debate/synergy among diverging philosophical and methodological traditions in management, social sciences, and the humanities, welcoming qualitative and quantitative research-based articles as well as critical research reviews and analyses. (http://gom.sagepub.com) The four articles selected by GOM’s editorial leadership team for special recognition as 2014 Outstanding Articles (Amos & Klimoski; Heracleous & Klaering; McDonald & Tang; Perrot et al.), plus the recipients of the 2014 Macro Best Paper (O’Reilly, Caldwell, Chatman, & Doerr) and 2014 Micro Best Paper (Bordia et al.), testify to the success with which GOM achieved 1 Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA Corresponding Author: William L. Gardner. Email: william.gardner@ttu.edu 604753GOM XX X 10.1177/1059601115604753Group & Organization ManagementGardner research-article 2015