Events

"Derailers in organisations are inevitable and their impact increases as they move up the career ladder. At the same time, counter-balances decrease; there is no-one contradicting or advising people as...

“Approach and avoidance are fundamental human urges – approaching things we need, like food or sex, and avoiding things that will destroy us. ….The ‘approach’ system of the brain is...

"There are problems with the way leadership is approached and theorised about…. There is an almost over-fixation with leadership and the idea that it is the single most important thing...

"I'm very interested in this question of management derailment and why leaders cock-up and fail." Adrian Furnham, Professor of Psychology, Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology, Division of Psychology & Language...

"Delegates heard about the psychological and biological effects of stress in triggering hubristic behaviour in leaders and possible ways to check its malign effects. Joy Ogden, freelance medical writer Progress...

Our second conference held in Cambridge in 2013 marked “a major inroad in looking at hubris from a business perspective,” said trust chairman Lord David Owen in his concluding remarks. “We...