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Hubris and the danger of leaders with extreme self-regard. (2017)
“…it is easy to see how the potential hazards of extreme self-regard could be playing out in the US..” Eugene Sadler-Smith, Professor of Organisational Behaviour, University of Surrey The Conversation, 20 January 2017 If hubris is an occupational hazard for leaders, is nemesis its unavoidable outcome? Currently, world events are dominated by the election of Donald Trump as US president and Britain’s impending exit from ...
Written by: Sadler-Smith, Eugene
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Early-bird rates now available for Power, Gender and Hubris conference.
Registration is now open for Power, Gender and Hubris conference, with early bird rates available until 11 April. Book now at Conference 2017. Power, Gender and Hubris will be held on 9 May 2017 at the Royal Society of Medicine in London. It is being organised by the Psychiatry Section of The Royal Society of Medicine in association with the Medical Women Federation and t...
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Hubris syndrome. (2017) “…an urgent problem for business leaders, which they show few signs of recognising.”
"Growing evidence shows that positions of power in politics and business may corrupt the ability of those in them to behave rationally. It’s time for risk managers to take heed." Lord David Owen, Daedalus Trust Trustee. Lord Owen sits in the House of Lords as an independent social democrat. He is a former UK Navy Minister, Health Minister and Foreign Secretary. David Owen studied medicine at Cambridge and St Thomas’s Hospital and was...
Written by: Owen, Lord David
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Can James Mattis protect Trump from hubris? (2017)
“Americans need someone who will educate, encourage, and if necessary, restrain, an inexperienced president." Dominic Tierney, contributing editor, associate professor at Swarthmore College. The Atlantic, 14 January 2017. Image: Mike Segar / Reuters “In ancient Rome, the ultimate honor was to receive a triumph, or a lavish parade through Rome to celebrate a great military victory. The hero would ride a chariot, accomp...
Written by: Tierney, Dominic.
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Minds and machines: the art of forecasting in the age of artificial intelligence. (2016)
“…judiciously constructed predictive models can augment human intelligence by helping humans avoid common cognitive traps.” James Guszcza, US chief data scientist of Deloitte Consulting; & Nikhil Maddirala, management consultant. Deloitte Review, Issue 19, 25 July 2016. "Forty years of behavioral science research into the psychology of probabilistic reasoning have revealed the surprising extent to which people...
Written by: Guszcza, James & Maddirala, Nikhil.
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Character traits of effective executives: A phenomenological study of CEOs in Ghana. (2016)
"Four major themes were revealed… integrity, forward looking, emotional intelligence, and caring for others….." Remy Nyukorong, Stichting Kongregatie F.I.C. The Netherlands; and William Quisenberry, Swiss Management Center University School of Business. European Scientific Journal, ESJ, 12(20). Leadership in organizations has been widely studied... However, (there is) scant research explorin...
Written by: Nyukorong, R., & Quisenberry, W.
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Companies headed by introverts performed better in a study of thousands of CEOs. (2016)
"...if we knew how the personality traits of CEOs produced different business results, could boards hire accordingly?" Oliver Staley Quartz 5 Aug 2016 Image: Reuters Article based on a working paper by Ian D. Gow, Harvard Business School; Steven N. Kaplan and Anastasia A. Zakolyukina, University of Chicago; David F. Larcker, Stanford University; paper released by the National Bureau of Economic Research “When a co...
Written by: Staley, Oliver; Gow, Ian D.; Kaplan, Steven N.; Larcker, David F. & Zakolyukina, Anastasia A.
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The psychology and neuroscience of financial decision making. (2016)
“New data from a variety of sources (is uncovering) new facts about the cognitive processes that influence financial decision-making.” Cary Frydman, USC Marshall School of Business, Los Angeles and Colin F. Camerer, Caltech, California Trends in Cognitive Sciences, August 2016. 20(9), 661-675. “New data from a variety of sources, including the human brain, corporate conference calls, genetics, and online trading ...
Written by: Frydman, C., & Camerer, C. F.
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Embrace the bold, temper the hubris. (2016)
"...ways to keep your bold attitude at the forefront and keep the hubris at bay. Maynard Webb, various roles including Yahoo! Board chairman forbes.com, 31 Oct 2016 "If you’re leading a company or a team, you likely have an outsized desire for greatness. That’s bold. You might also think you can put a unique spin on things in a way no one else can. That’s hubris. "…the fact is there’s a fine line between bol...
Written by: Webb, Maynard.
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Why so many leaders fail and derail. (2016)
“…derailment and disappointment among leaders are as common as success. Prof. Adrian Furnham, University College London Psychology Today 25 Aug 2016 "There are more than 70,000 books with ‘leadership’ in their title, but almost none about a common phenomenon…There may be studies of wicked, evil leaders … but there is almost nothing on the taboo subject of the ordinary wunderkind who lost the plot. "There h...
Written by: Furnham, Adrian.
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