Academic articles

“..dedicated to closing gaps in our knowledge about negative aspects of organisational behaviour, particularly the role that dark personality plays in the workplace and in predicting negative organisational behaviour." Various...

“Stressful and competitive working environments could be increasing hormone levels and having an impact on decision-making.” Carlos Cueva, Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico, Universidad de Alicante and R. Edward Roberts,...

“The idea of equilibrium is a dangerous delusion.. The accuracy of his pessimistic conclusion remains to be seen.”   Stewart Lansley,  visiting fellow in the Townsend Centre for International Poverty...

What practical steps can firms take to manage the “risk of blinding over-confidence”? Eric Shaw, operational psychologist and researcher specializing in insider risk issues; and Laura Sellers, Clinical Social Worker...

"Hubris can be described as over-confidence on steroids." Our latest in an occasional series of guest blogs comes from Professor Dennis Tourish. “A test of leadership" discusses the importance of listening to opposing views...

"… toxic leadership … is endangering the well-being of organisational members, compromising future sustainable organisational, community and societal performance and success. Theo Veldsman, Professor and Head, Department of Industrial Psychology...

"I have become increasingly interested in two interlocking features that seem to be associated with Hubris Syndrome, namely diminished empathy and unbridled intuition.   Speech by the Rt Hon Lord...

"...we should take a hard look at our own behavior; how we are complicit in producing leaders of precisely the type we say we don’t want." Jeffrey Pfeffer, Professor of...

Perspective-taking, or imagining the world from another’s vantage point…. may be the ideal formula for morally authoritative leadership. David Dubois, INSEAD Assistant Professor of Marketing Insead Knowledge. 19 Nov 2015....

“…(teaching) heroic models of leadership has legitimised the over-concentration of power, encouraged hubris rather than humility … and played a significant part in business scandals.” David Collinson, Lancaster University, and...