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Boasting vs. humility: which one wins? (2016)
"...even the toxic part of a narcissist's personality can be judged positively if it's interspersed with a dash of humility." James Adonis, The Sydney Morning Herald>My Business 19March 2016 “…we live in a world bombarded by advice that suggests leaders must be heroic, visionary, charismatic, energetic, and that to get ahead you must grab your trumpet and blow it lest someone else blows their's harder in a battle o...
Written by: Adonis, James.
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How does leader humility influence team performance? Exploring the mechanisms of contagion and collective promotion focus. (2016)
"Leader behavior can spread via social contagion to followers... leaders need to lead by example." Bradley P Owens, Brigham Young University; & David R. Hekman, University of Colorado Academy of Management Journal, 59(3), 1088-1111. The researchers explored whether humility in a leader influences team interaction patterns, emergent states, and ultimately, team performance. They posited that leaders who behave humbl...
Written by: Owens, B. P., & Hekman, D. R.
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Guest Blog: Hubris by Design. (2016)
"Those particularly at risk of developing hubris … may be in jeopardy not so much because of flaws in their .. personality but because of their location at the top of the hierarchy where information they receive is heavily filtered to meet their expectations. Graham Robinson, BA, PhD, FRSA Another in an occasional series of contributions from members of our Advisory Board and other friends of the Daedalus Trust. D...
Written by: Daedalus admin
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Responsible leadership: Realism and romanticism. (2016)
Editors; Steve Kempster (Professor, Leadership Learning & Development, Lancaster University Management School, UK) Brigid Carroll (Associate Professor, Department of Management & International Business, University of Auckland, New Zealand.) Pub: Routledge studies in leadership research This book argues that “it is time for a new understanding of leadership, a new romanticism which looks behind the overv...
Written by: Kempster, Steve & Carroll, Brigid.
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Overconfident CEOs are less socially responsible. (2016)
"Overconfident CEOs invest less in activities that impact positively on society… Female CEOs are significantly less overconfident than male CEOs." Barry Oliver The Conversation, 12 December 2016 Drawn from the paper ‘Corporate social responsibility and CEO confidence’ Scott McCarthy, Barry Oliver and Sizhe Song; University of Queensland, Australia Journal of Banking & Finance, Volume 75, ...
Written by: Oliver, B., McCarthy, S. & Song, S.
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Narcissism and the myth of invincibility. (2016)
"Even if you’re far past adolescence, you may carry at least part of that 'personal fable' notion into your everyday life Prof. Susan Krauss Whitbourne, University of Massachusetts Psychology Today, 9 February 2016 "We see plenty of examples in the media of celebrities and politicians who think they can do no harm. "Believing that no harm can come your way… can lead you to become a victim of the myth of in...
Written by: Whitbourne, Susan Krauss.
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Women bosses turn into men says Germaine Greer. (2016)
“If you want to make the world a safer, kinder, happier place then simply substituting men with women wouldn’t cut it.” Greg Hurst The Times, 25 June 2016 Image: YLWA YNGVESSON/SCANPIX Having women in positions of power does not make the world better as they “just do what men do”, according to the feminist Germaine Greer. ….She pointed to a target for one third of board members of FTSE 100 companies to be ...
Written by: Greer, G.
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Networking for team and/or self. (2016)
"Teams and their leaders may have conflicting networking goals. That needn’t be a problem, but often is." Frédéric C. Godart, Insead Knowledge, 6 March 2017 Based on a paper prepared with Fabrice Cavarretta and Matthias Thiemann: Task complexity and shared value orientation: exploring the moderators of a social dilemma in team social networks "… the role of team leaders (includes) organising the...
Written by: Godart, F. C.
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Selfie-generation grades boosted ‘if lecturers are narcissists’. (2016)
“less narcissistic students struggled in classes with more narcissistic faculty.. However, more narcissistic students “thrived” with similarly self-obsessed instructors”. David Matthews, Times Higher Education 5 April 2016 Image: iStock For ordinary students, a preening, self-obsessed lecturer is bad news. But for their narcissistic, selfie-taking classmates, having a similarly self-regarding professor actually boosts gra...
Written by: Matthews, David.
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Riding the leadership rollercoaster: An observer’s guide. (2016)
"(tools to) prevent leaders becoming prisoners of their own past, making the same mistakes over and over again." Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries, INSEAD Springer NB - includes the chapter ‘Riding for a fall: Hubris - it’s really real.’ From the publisher’s preview: “A collection of short, bite-sized nuggets of insight into the psychological ups and downs of the leadership jo...
Written by: de Vries, M. F. K.
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