Resources

"Allowing a corporate leader to overstay his or her useful time at the top is harmful. Some leaders can change, and develop an acquired personality disorder, after wielding power.  ...

"We explore why narcissists perform Counter-productive Work Behaviour and offer advice regarding what organizations can do to avoid it. We (also) discuss narcissism's relationship with leadership effectiveness, and propose the Narcissistic Leaders and...

"There is a dark side to power, which derives from its mind-changing effects on the people who hold it. The group looked for words, phrases and patterns of language use that...

"...how does a nation or company avoid the dangers of tone-deaf leaders? It's as simple as making finite the time that leaders spend close to power's flame. In other words:...

"Some of the world’s worst cock-ups could be said to be caused by individuals who allow power to inflate their egos to Hindenburg proportions. Consider the Iraq war, the banking fiasco, Miley...

..."the brilliant men who ran the company ignored the simple banking rules that their predecessors learned the hard way three centuries before.."     Ray Perman: former journalist (Financial Times,...

"Problems caused by individuals recklessly using their power can be sometimes identified amongst leaders in the NHS. Most get caught but not before they have done great damage Professor Brian...

“..confronts the orthodoxy that transformational leadership is a ‘good thing’ by illustrating how it can encourage narcissism, megalomania and poor decision-making at great expense to organizations   Dennis Tourish, Professor...

"Denial, ego and hubris are all parts of human nature. They are like gravity. We don’t defeat them. To move forward we must actively resist them every day."   Eric...

Taylor, Martin, “The love of power does more damage than the love of money ... of all the avenues .. a teenage daughter is the most successful puncturer of a CEO’s...