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Did big personalities worsen the financial crash? (2015)
“..in order to take a share in charisma, one must turn one's back on the world. This process couldn't have been more evident in the 2008 financial crisis. Elesa Zehndorfer, author of 'Charismatic Leadership: The Role of Charisma in the Financial Markets' BBC News - Magazine, 24 August 2015 “In June 2007, Bloomberg Markets magazine dedicated an issue ("Toxic Debt") to a 36-page special edition on the dangers of subprime mortgages - home loa...
Written by: Zehndorfer, Elesa,
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Tipping point: Managers’ self-interest, greed, and altruism. (2015)
".. managerial hubris ... differs from self-confidence. "Hubris is an extreme manifestation of confidence, characterized by preoccupation with fantasies of success and power, excessive feelings of self-importance, as well as arrogance.” Katalin Takacs Haynes, University of Delaware; Matthew Josefy and Michael A. Hitt, Texas A&M University Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 15480518155851...
Written by: Haynes, K. T., Josefy, M., & Hitt, M. A.
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Developing strong and diverse political leaders. (2015)
“…while it might be easy to ascribe politicians’ apparent reluctance to acknowledge their own needs for development to arrogance, hubris or self-interest - there may be legitimate reasons for being wary about introducing training to politics.” Jo Silvester, Professor of Psychology, Cass Business School, City University London Madeleine Wyatt, Lecturer, Kent Business School, University of Kent The psychologist (Brit...
Written by: Silvester, J. and Wyatt, M.
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Why your board needs a director like Donald Trump. (2015)
“Say what you will about ‘The Donald’, but lots of boards could use a director with his courage Adam J. Epstein, Third Creek Advisors VentureBeat.com August 2, 2015 2:00 pm Image Credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr “Corporate boards fail for all kinds of reasons. Some boards lack the appropriate skillsets or experience around the table. Some boards are expertly composed but insufficiently engaged or committed. Others...
Written by: Epstein, Adam J.
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Humility, hubris and the curse of self-deception. (2015)
"What ultimately determines an organisation’s fate is whether key people remain open to seeing beyond the familiar, so what they might become in the future is not stifled by what they have been in the past. Geoff Marlow (geoff@geoffmarlow.com, @geoffmarlow) is a Founding Member of the Advisory Board of the Daedalus Trust and a former UK Director of the Society for Organisational Learni...
Written by: Marlow, Geoff.
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Disorders of Personality. Introducing a DSM/ICD spectrum from normal to abnormal. 3rd edition. (2015)
Theodore Millon, Ph.D., D.Sc., Institute for Advanced Studies in Personology and Psychopathology Wiley Series on Personality Processes, Pub. John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is the handbook used by health care professionals in the United States and much of the world as the authoritative guide to the diagnosis of mental disorders. DSM co...
Written by: Millon, Theodore.
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Book: The Narcissist Test – How to spot outsized egos… and the surprising things we can learn from them. (2015)
"narcissism is a spectrum ... some level of it can make us better partners, courageous leaders, and intrepid explorers. Beware however of “extreme narcissists” who tend to be demanding, approval-seeking, manipulative. Dr Craig Malkin, Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School; licensed psychologist practitioner Publisher: Harper Collins Narcissism is all around us. We are a selfie-obsessed generation, surv...
Written by: Malkin, Craig.
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Article: Me – The narcissist test. (2015)
“…narcissism exists on a spectrum:. For “healthy narcissists”, their narcissism is actually positive. The ones to watch are “extreme narcissists” who “tend to be demanding, approval-seeking, manipulative”. Sunday Times Magazine 25 July 2015 We’ve got it all wrong, according to Harvard Medical School psychology lecturer Dr Craig Malkin: narcissism can actually be good for us. ...
Written by: Malkin, Craig.
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Horrible bosses: Why smart leaders make ‘stupid’ decisions. (2015)
"We make hundreds of decisions every single day. But … about 50% of them are wrong". Chamorro-Premuzic explains why smart leaders make ‘stupid’ decisions. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic ,CEO at Hogan Assessments, Professor of Business Psychology at University College London (UCL), Visiting Professor at Columbia University Interview for Business News Network BNN TV. 22 June 2015 (9 mins) “Decision-making is flawed because...
Written by: Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas
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Beyond the bright side: dark personality at work. (2015)
“…we set out to expand the discussion …. beyond the Dark Triad (Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy) and DSM-IV Axis 2-based models that have dominated research in this area.” P. D. Harms, University of Nebraska, USA Seth M. Spain, Binghamton University, USA One of the articles in Applied Psychology’s special issue: ‘Beyond the bright side: dark personality in the workplace’. January 2015, Volume...
Written by: Harms, P. D. & Spain, Seth M.
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