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"Excessive internal focus reduced the attention Nokia devoted to processing external threats, generating a mortal combination of high internal fear and low external fear. Herminia Ibarra ft.com, 11 April 2016 Ibarra reviews an article analysing the decline of Nokia, written by professors Timo Vuori (Aalto University) and Quy Huy (Insead). While the “famous paranoia” of Intel’s then-leader Andy Grove helped him s...

"Hubris often indicates a loss of contact with reality and an overestimation of one’s own competence, accomplishments or capabilities Maarten Mittnjer, BusinessDay Live, Business / Financial Services, 12 May 2016 Picture Russell Roberts Former African Bank CEO Leon Kirkinis believed that he was right and everyone else on the board of African Bank was wrong, Judge John Myburgh has found in his report on African Bank. (Judge Myburgh ra...

….nobody dared bring the king any bad news, They made sure he only heard the things he wanted to hear. Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries. In ‘Telling fairy tales in the boardroom’. INSEAD Business Press, pp. 38 - 61. Once upon a time, in the middle of a deep, dark forest in a land far, far away, stood the palace of a king who ruled over an immense empire. But although his kingdom was rich and powerful, all was not well. T...

"...stubbornness, economic mismanagement and a tendency toward self-isolation... led her to rebuff advice that might have averted recession and saved her politically. Reuters > World, Tuesday 10 May 2016 Brad Brooks and Paulo Prada Minutes after taking her oath of office in 2011, President Dilma Rousseff stood before Congress and pledged to end the dirty back-room deals and kickback schemes at the heart of Brazilian po...

This event has now been held. For a report and downloadable summary see Anti-hubris toolkit taking shape For a wrap up, see: Quo Vadis Hubris? A personal view of the Guildford Hubris Workshop, 18 May 2016. If you’re concer...

"Hubris should be classed alongside credit and liquidity risks. Jill Treanor The Guardian>Regulators, Monday 9 May 2016. Andrew Bailey (pictured), incoming chief executive of the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has said that ... “hubris needs to be added to the list of risks City firms face." Giving his last speech as a deputy governor of the Bank of England before taking up his role at the FCA, Baile...

“…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...