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"Might the best guide to what is happening in Greece now be the heaving underbelly of Greek myth, that repository of the unimaginably cruel, disgraceful and disastrous aspects of human character and destiny? Harry Eyres, ‘The Slow Lane’ Financial Times, 30 January 2015 “The coverage of events in Greece has repeatedly reminded us that the Greeks (albeit of an earlier vintage) gave us the words politics, democracy, dr...

What practical steps can firms take to manage the “risk of blinding over-confidence”? Eric Shaw, operational psychologist and researcher specializing in insider risk issues; and Laura Sellers, Clinical Social Worker and former counter intelligence analyst with the US Department of Defense. Studies in Intelligence Vol 59, No. 2 (Extracts, June 2015) “To credit risk, market risk, liquidity risk, cond...

"If Obokata hadn’t tried to be a world-beater, chances are her sleights of hand would have gone unnoticed… John Rasko and Carl Power, The Guardian 18 February 2015 “The spectacular fall of the Japanese scientist who claimed to have triggered stem cell abilities in regular body cells is not uncommon in the scientific community. The culprit: carelessness and hubris in the drive to make a historic discovery “The y...

"Deepwater Horizon could have been prevented had BP listened to just one of the many warnings coming from whistleblowers inside the company." Kate Kenny, Reader in Management at Queen's University Belfast The Conversation.com, 12 May 2015 “Whistleblowers perform a vital role in today’s world. They alert the public to financial fraud, abuse in institutions and potential environmental disasters. For yea...

"Sometimes the boss doesn't have all the answers and has to modify their position. In the face of compelling evidence, that's what should happen Katie Hope, Business Reporter, BBC website 4 February 2015. Based on interviews by leadership expert Steve Tappin for the BBC's ‘CEO Guru’ series, produced by Neil Koenig. CEOs must attempt to “cut through ‘some of the bureaucratic noise’ and make sure that peo...

“…underscores the contribution of hubris to economists' calamitous lack of foresight, and makes a persuasive case for re-engagement with the history of economic thought.   Professor Lord Desai, Honorary Fellow and Emeritus Professor LSE London School of Economics and Political Science Published by Yale University Press, April 2015 “The failure of economists to anticipate the global financial crisis and mit...

"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...

Rules providing for individual accountability “will put senior managers at UK banks under real pressure".   James Titcomb, The Telegraph 16 March 2015 Top UK bankers will have to bear personal responsibility for wrongdoing at their companies under a ‘Senior Managers' Regime’ (SMR) being introduced by their financial regulator. The Financial Conduct Authority says the the new rules will end the "Murder on the Orient...

Assembled from papers presented to the two first Daedalus Trust conferences, this new book offers perspectives on leadership hubris from business, neuroscience, psychology and other disciplines. Edited by Peter Garrard (clinical academic neurologist based at St George's University of London, UK); and Graham Robinson (visiting senior fellow at the Surrey Business School of the University of Surrey, UK) Publisher: Palgrave Macmilla...