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“The behaviors we love to hate may be essential for a leader’s success.” Jay Conger, Professor of Leadership Studies, Claremont McKenna College, LA Part of Talent Quarterly’s ‘The Dark Side...

“While Nobel Prize winners, academics and economists … mention numerous reasons for these meltdowns, hubris is often cited as the chief culprit Ken Jaworowski New York Times > Movies, 10...

"...even the toxic part of a narcissist's personality can be judged positively if it's interspersed with a dash of humility." James Adonis, The Sydney Morning Herald>My Business 19March 2016 “…we...

"Those particularly at risk of developing hubris … may be in jeopardy not so much because of flaws in their .. personality but because of their location at the top...

"Overconfident CEOs invest less in activities that impact positively on society… Female CEOs are significantly less overconfident than male CEOs." Barry Oliver The Conversation, 12 December 2016 Drawn from the...

"Even if you’re far past adolescence, you may carry at least part of that 'personal fable' notion into your everyday life Prof. Susan Krauss Whitbourne, University of Massachusetts Psychology Today,...

“If you want to make the world a safer, kinder, happier place then simply substituting men with women wouldn’t cut it.” Greg Hurst The Times, 25 June 2016 Image: YLWA...

"Teams and their leaders may have conflicting networking goals. That needn’t be a problem, but often is." Frédéric C. Godart, Insead Knowledge, 6 March 2017 Based on a paper prepared...

“less narcissistic students struggled in classes with more narcissistic faculty.. However, more narcissistic students “thrived” with similarly self-obsessed instructors”. David Matthews, Times Higher Education 5 April 2016 Image: iStock For...

“Hubris has a nasty habit of breeding disaster, particularly when combined with oodles of cheap debt.” Gillian Tett, Ft.com > FT Magazine, 8 April 2016 “...in 1990 the Japanese bubble...