Videos

"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...

Lord Owen provides a succinct summary of the concept of Hubris Syndrome, its manifestations and impacts on leadership, businesses and society. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbSEpSq1i_c  

“…the most significant progress (comes from) intellectual humility that lets us accept that most of what we know will ... before long, become wrong.” Elizabeth Nable, President of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, professor...

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...

“We have to look at this in the round, on a multidisciplinary basis.” Trustee Lord David Owen discusses the significance of our September 2013 conference, ‘Intoxication of power: leadership and...

“It’s our first opportunity to explore the issues of hubris purely focused on the needs of business. Trustee Geoff Marlow discusses the significance of our September 2013 conference, ‘Intoxication of...

“(..we’ve seen many) cautionary tales lately about the destruction in value and the havoc that hubris can wreak inside a company." Trustee Dan Marks discusses the significance of our September...

“Hubris and leadership is a very important topic, particularly in these current times." Professor Nick Bouras discusses the significance of our September 2013 conference, ‘Intoxication of power: leadership and hubris’....

Blaug, Ricardo. "Hubris is a serious and recurrent problem associated with the processes by which individual, group and organisations simultaneously create meaning. Dr Ricardo Blaug, Reader in Democracy and Political Theory,...