Articles & blogs

There’s a new algorithm that will alert Wall Streeters when they start freaking out. (2016)
“…traders who expressed too little or too much emotion made relatively poor trades. Rachel Butt (reporting the work of professor Brian Uzzi, Kellogg School of Management and colleagues Bin Liu of Google, and Ramesh Govindan,...
Written by: Uzzi, Brian; Liu, Bin & Govindam, Ramesh.
Read moreEarly lessons from Wells Fargo: Three ways to prevent getting set up for ethical failure. (2016)
"...Corporate scandals (and) ethical failures are often organizational at their outset." Ron Carucci forbes.com, 13 Sept 2016 Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images "While most assume corporate scandals are the result of...
Written by: Carucci, Ron.
Read moreDon’t let power corrupt you. (2016)
"Practical mindfulness exercises for resisting ‘the power paradox’ aka Hubris Syndrome." Prof. Dacher Keltner, University of California, Berkeley, faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center. Harvard Business Review October...
Written by: Keltner, Dacher,
Read moreWhy Risk cultures need prudence. A Centre for Risk Research discussion document.
“… this document will contend that prudence has great potential to serve as the most fundamental concept within any organisation’s risk culture. Dr Alasdair Marshall, also Prof Johnnie Johnson, Prof...
Written by: Marshall, Alasdair.
Read moreThe dangers of power. (2016)
"How you can gain more power, and why you should be leery." Shana Lynch (based on the writing of Prof Brian Lowery, Standford University), Stanford Business Insights, 27 July 2016...
Written by: Lynch, Shana & Lowery, Brian.
Read moreAgainst the Führerprinzip: for collective leadership. (2016)
“Highlights the ineffectiveness and dangerousness of powerful individual leaders.” Prof. Archie Brown, University of Oxford. A chapter from the special edition of Daedalus (the Journal of the American Academy of...
Written by: Brown, Archie.
Read moreIs psychoanalyzing our politicians fair game? (2016)
"We need a systematic and independent medical and psychiatric examination of all political candidates for president. I will give the most extreme example, Hitler." Prof. Nassir Ghaemi, Tufts Medical Center,...
Written by: Daedalus admin
Read moreWhat is leadership competence for women? (2016)
“Women leaders will do a great service by declining to adopt the worst male leadership traits.” Jennifer Kenny. WMBnow 11 July 2016. “I was thrilled when Sarah Palin was selected...
Written by: Kenny, Jennifer.
Read moreIn favor of ‘leader proofing’. (2016)
"As often as not (possibly more often than not) strong leaders pose substantial risks. They are liable to do as much damage as good, possibly more." Prof. Anthony King, University...
Written by: King, Anthony.
Read moreEssays: ‘On political leadership’. (2016)
“The yearning for a strong individual leader who will dominate all and sundry is the pursuit of a false god Published in 'Daedalus', the Journal of the American Academy of...
Written by: Brown, Archie.
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