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Narcissism – A necessary but precarious requirement for leading at the top. (2016)
“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 Issue’, Issue 8 2016 Conger describes how narcissistic behaviors are needed to emerge as a leader and how they’ve powered some of the w...
Written by: Conger, Jay.
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Performance for pay? The relation between CEO incentive compensation and future stock price performance. (2014)
“CEO pay is negatively related to future stock returns…driven by… overconfidence that leads to losses from over investment and value-destroying M&A. Michael J. Cooper, University of Utah; Huseyin Gulen, Purdue University; P. Raghavendra Rau, University of Cambridge Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN) 1 October 2014 Politicians and the media have been arguing that CEOs are paid too much and that...
Written by: Cooper, Michael J.; Gulen, Huseyin; Rau, P. Raghavendra.
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CEO power and CEO hubris: a prelude to financial misreporting? (2016)
“…firms accused of financial misreporting exhibit features of strong CEO power and hubris…Governance mechanisms, especially independent boards of directors, do not seem to be effective in detecting or preventing financial misreporting…” Denis Cormier, Université du Québec à Montréal; Pascale Lapointe-Antunes, Brock University, St Catharines, Canada; Michel Magnan, Concordia University, Montreal, Management Decision...
Written by: Cormier, D., Lapointe-Antunes, P., & Magnan, M.
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Illuminating and applying ‘the dark side’: Insights from elite team leaders. (2015)
"...presents evidence of the use of dark side behaviors by elite team leaders, illuminates these behaviors look like during a common leadership task, and reveals how they were effectively applied." Andrew Cruickshank, University of Central Lancashire, & Dave Collins, University of Central Lancashire/Grey Matters Performance Ltd. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 27(3), 249-267. As a core performance construct, l...
Written by: Cruickshank, A., & Collins, D.
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Your body language shapes who you are. (2012)
“Power posing”, standing in a posture of confidence, can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain Amy Cuddy, social psychologist TED Talk June 2012. “We know that our minds change our bodies, but is it also true that our bodies change our minds? “… we know that in primate hierarchies … if an individual needs to take over an alpha role suddenly, within a few days that individual's testosterone ...
Written by: Cuddy, Amy.
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Cortisol and testosterone increase financial risk taking and may destabilize markets. (2015)
“Stressful and competitive working environments could be increasing hormone levels and having an impact on decision-making.” Carlos Cueva, Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico, Universidad de Alicante and R. Edward Roberts, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London also Tom Spencer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge; Nisha Rani, Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundatio...
Written by: Cueva, Carlos; Roberts, R. Edward; et al
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On narcissism: the mirror and the self. (2013) People from Tiger Woods to the Obamas are routinely denounced for narcissism. But are there good as well as bad types of self-love?
"It is the fashion to see people increasingly as one of two types - a narcissist, or the victim of one - so perhaps it is worth asking precisely what is meant by the word. Its usage is puritanical: it is intended to inflict shame Rachel Cusk New Statesman.com 03 August 2013 It is the fashion to see people increasingly as one of two types - a narcissist, or the victim of one - so perhaps it is worth asking preci...
Written by: Cusk, Rachel.
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Hubris Forum, in association with Surrey Business School
Organised by Professor Eugene Sadler-Smith and Dr Graham Robinson 5 December 2018, 13:30 – 16:30 GMT 66 MS 03, Surrey Business School, Rik Medlik Building, Stag Hill, Guildford. GU2 7XH The event is free, but registration is required.
The worlds of business and p...
Written by: Daedalus Trust
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The hubris hypothesis of corporate social irresponsibility: evidence from the Parmalat case. (2013)
"the personality and values of (the CEO) contribute to explaining the development of Parmalat, the manifestation of its weaknesses and why the firm … fell into the hubris trap of its CEO.” G. B. Dagnino, A. Minà & P.M. Picone, University of Catania. From - Integrity in organizations: Building the foundations for humanistic management. Edited by W. Amann, A. Stachowicz-Stanusch Palgrave MacMillan, New York. It was dubb...
Written by: Dagnino, G. B., Minà, A., & Picone, P. M.
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Why great success can bring out the worst parts of our personalities (2018)
"The more power and influence you have, the less interested you will be in pleasing other people and in keeping your dark side in check." Lovric D., Principal at Incandescent, and Chamorro-Premuzic T., Chief Talent Scientist at ManpowerGroup. Harvard Business Review, 09 August 2018 Image: jdlasica / Read more