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"Mindfulness can restore balance and calm to chaotic workplaces if embraced by leaders. Ray Williams, Wired for success Psychology Today,  3 Oct 2016. "Many of today’s organizations are chaotic if not outright toxic for employees and leaders alike. There are multiple reasons why chaotic workplaces are proliferating. With mega-mergers and globalization, some corporations are becoming vaster and impersonal, while simult...

“…examines hubristic leadership … first in terms of over-confidence and its relationship to core self-evaluation and narcissism; then as an acquired disorder (Hubris Syndrome) Eugene Sadler-Smith, Vita Akstinaite, Graham Robinson and Tim Wray; Surrey Business School, University of Surrey, UK Leadership. 2 December 2016. “Hubris is a potentially dangerous cocktail of over-confidence, over-ambition, arrogan...

"The election exposed how isolated and insulated journalists and professors are from the typical Trump voter Prof Mark Grabowski, Adelphi University, New York The Washington Examiner, 28 November 2016 AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall Donald Trump’s victory was “an epic failure for the media-academia complex. Not just because nearly every poll showing that Trump had little to no chance of winning was a collaborative effort betwe...

"...the rush of winning triggers physiological changes that undermine rational thinking and decision-making.. Ideas for Leaders #608 Ideasforleaders.com Based on work by Asst Prof Amos Nadler, Ivey Business School “New research shows that testosterone increases the over-confident and over-optimistic impulses of male traders, resulting in higher prices and more frequent bubbles. It also reveals, in general, that we are not al...

“Because of these character issues, whatever our political views, we should have deep concerns about a Trump presidency. Professor Mark Stein, Chair in Leadership and Management, School of Business, University of Leicester. Think Leicester. 28 November 2016 "Trump has all the characteristics of a narcissistic leader, and all the warning signs are present: we have good reason to be concerned. One key feature of t...

The full line-up of speakers for our next conference has just been confirmed - and it's an impressive list. 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 the Daedalus Trust. Douglas Cairns, Professor of Classics, University of Edinburgh will be lecturing o...

Plans for a practical Anti-Hubris Toolkit have reached an important milestone with the release of proposals for managing and mitigating hubris in business organisations. Co-produced by academics at Surrey Business School’s The Hubris Project and senior practitioners, the proposals offer ideas for three tools:

• Empowering the Board
• Listening to ‘faint signals’
• De-isolating and grounding the CEO.
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"If you're faking humility to manipulate others, just stop it. We'd rather deal with your hubris than your falsity. Jeff DeWolf, LinkedIn, 7 October 2016 Today's leadership theorists tell us that effective leaders must be humble. They explain that humble leaders are more trusted, respected, easier to follow, and ultimately successful. (But) we've all heard that a ‘tiger can't change its stripes.’ If that's true, t...

"...researchers found “a robust negative association” between extroverted, talkative CEOs and “return on assets and cash flow”. Drake Baer, nymag.com, science of us 8 Aug 2016 Based on work by assistant professor Ian D. Gow, Harvard Business School; also Steven N. Kaplan; David F. Larcker; Anastasia A. Zakolyukina: for the National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2016 Photo: Stuart McClymont