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"...(while) constructs such as narcissism and hubris have been measured, they are not synonymous with arrogance..." Russell E. Johnson, Michigan State University; Stanley B. Silverman, University of Akron; Aarti Shyamsunder, Infosys Leadership Institute; Hsien-Yao Swee, The Eaton Corporation; O. Burcu Rodopman, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul; Eunae Cho and Jeremy Bauer, University of South Florida. “Accounts of arrogant employees...

“.. it was up to (academic Diederik Stapel) to resist the siren call of fame. However … who played the role of playground pusher and led him to where he would hear it? Irene Ogrizek, freelance writer. Originally posted in 2013. Included in Understanding global higher education: insights from key global publications, published 23 June 2017 "In the summer of 2011, a Dutch social psychologist was in the process of losing...

Professor Eugene Sadler-Smith and Dr Graham Robinson, members of the our Trust’s Advisory Group, will both be speaking at the upcoming ‘Hubris in Business and Management’ symposium. The event, hosted by Surrey Business School, University of Surrey, will be held on Wednesday 20 May 2015 in Guildford. Free of charge (although numbers are strictly limited), it is being described as “a valuable exchange of ideas on the current state-of-the...

"There was too much over-confidence, a willingness to believe the advance hype that victory was inevitable. And then there was the biggest block of all: Mr Salmond’s refusal to listen to advice.   Chris Deerin blog, 11 August 2014. Also published in the Scottish Daily Mail An MSP recounts how he was eating in the restaurant of the Scottish Parliament recently when Alex Salmond came in. Upon sitting down, the First Minist...

“Highlights the ineffectiveness and dangerousness of powerful individual leaders.” Prof. Archie Brown, University of Oxford. A chapter from the special edition of Daedalus (the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences) ‘On political leadership’, published summer 2016. "The Führerprinzip (‘leader principle’) has not been confined to Nazi Germany. The cult of the strong leader thrives in ma...

"The more successful he became, the bigger the egos he had to deal with among his millionaire players. Success, like power, is a strong drug which inflates egos and can distort judgment and personality.   Professor Ian Robertson, holder of the Chair in Psychology at Trinity College Dublin. 9 May 2013 Alex Ferguson’s gift is to be a dominant, alpha-male primate, who maintains the perfect balance between ensuring that his ...

"It was … up there with Lloyds’ merger with HBOS or Royal Bank of Scotland’s acquisition of ABN Amro in the roll call of disastrously ill-judged takeovers. Jeremy Warner The Telegraph: Business (online) 2 April 2016 "...it was frankly obvious to virtually everyone other than Tata Steel itself, and its massed ranks of fee hungry investment bankers, that the company was buying a pig in a poke when it acquired Corus, together w...

"You have used this to stand off to one side, basking in the glow of your own hubris. This has to end." James Moore, The Independent, Tuesday 24 February 2015   (Addressed to the CEO of HSBC): "During your results call you suggested, in response to the criticism HSBC has faced over the activities of its Swiss private bank, that we are holding large corporations to higher standards than others – the military, the chur...