What could make oil executives downplay risks on a rig that caused the biggest spill ever?
Disregard for possible unwanted outcomes
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The Daedalus Trust was established as a charity in 2011 to raise awareness of, and promote research into, hubris. Since 2018 the Trust’s work has been advanced by the Maudsley Philosophy Group and Surrey Business School.
Those websites will have more up-to-date material but this, our original site, is maintained to preserve its excellent repository of knowledge.
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TO HAVE HUBRIS SYNDROME, LEADERS MUST EXHIBIT AT LEAST THREE OR FOUR BEHAVIOURS FROM A LIST OF 14 “EXCRUCIATINGLY UNFLATTERING” SYMPTOMS