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Illuminating and applying ‘the dark side’: Insights from elite team leaders. (2015)
"...presents evidence of the use of dark side behaviors by elite team leaders, illuminates these behaviors look like during a common leadership task, and reveals how they were effectively applied." Andrew Cruickshank, University of Central Lancashire, & Dave Collins, University of Central Lancashire/Grey Matters Performance Ltd. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 27(3), 249-267. As a core performance construct, l...
Written by: Cruickshank, A., & Collins, D.
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Advisory Group members head up free Surrey University Symposium
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...
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Guest Blog: A test of leadership. (2015)
"Hubris can be described as over-confidence on steroids." Our latest in an occasional series of guest blogs comes from Professor Dennis Tourish. “A test of leadership" discusses the importance of listening to opposing views and and highlights the dangers of hubris, showing how it can lead to bad management decisions. Dennis Tourish, professor of Leadership and Organisation...
Written by: Tourish, Dennis.
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Symposium: Hubris in Business and Management – book now
Wednesday 20 May 2015, 13.30-17.00, Rik Medlik Building, University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH Hubris is excessive self-confidence, exaggerated self-belief, and contempt for the advice and criticism of others; it has played a significant role in many political, economic, technical, and environmental outcomes that have proved disastrous. Surrey Business School is bringing together some of the UK’s leading researchers into hubris...
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From the power of language to the language of power. (2015)
"...simple transformations of texts ... can expose unseen information reflecting a writer’s cognitive status, mental life, and even personality... Peter Garrard, neurologist and neuroscientist at St George's Hospital Medical School, London. Dr Garrard is also a Trustee of the Daedalus Trust. TedxWansworth (independently-organized TED event), 14 November 2015 "Dr Garrard …. explains how simple transformations of text...
Written by: Garrard, Peter.
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How toxic leaders destroy people as well as organisations. (2015)
"… toxic leadership … is endangering the well-being of organisational members, compromising future sustainable organisational, community and societal performance and success. Theo Veldsman, Professor and Head, Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management, University of Johannesburg The Conversation 14 January 2015 Toxic leadership represents the “dark” side of leadership. It affects individuals as wel...
Written by: Veldsman, Theo.
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Narcissism, director selection, and risk-taking spending. (2015)
“… when narcissistic chief executives interact with the board, they often meet not a moment of reckoning but their favourite thing: a mirror. David. H. Zhu, Arizona State University; Guoli Chen, INSEAD, Singapore. Strategic Management Journal, 36: 2075–2098. Much recent corporate governance research has considered the failure of boards to anticipate and prevent the risk-taking decisions that brou...
Written by: Zhu, D. H. and Chen, G.
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Hubris Syndrome: Diminished empathy and unbridled intuition. (2015)
"I have become increasingly interested in two interlocking features that seem to be associated with Hubris Syndrome, namely diminished empathy and unbridled intuition. Speech by the Rt Hon Lord Owen to the Latest Advances in Psychiatry Symposium, Royal College Of Physicians, London. Thursday 12 March, 2015 I have become increasingly interested in two interlocking features that seem to be associated wit...
Written by: Owen, Lord David.
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Critics blame Erdogan ‘hubris’ for currency weakness. (2015)
"As (Erdogan's) power has increased so has his hubris and there are now very few people around him who dare to speak the truth about what is happening in the economy Daniel Dombay, ft.com > markets, 9March 2015 "Many analysts and experts say that the Turkish lira’s recent plunge — which has seen it lose more than 10 per cent against the dollar this year so far — is largely the doing of Mr Erdogan himself. ..... ...
Written by: Dombay, Daniel.
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Understanding how finance has moved from “Hubris to Disgrace”. (2015)
"As banking scandals continue.. the question is whether regulations can protect citizens … (against bankers with) a deep-seated disregard for the rules? Mark Esposito, Harvard University Extension & Grenoble School of Management; Terence Tse, ESCP Europe Business School LSE – USAPP blog, 29 January 2015 "Despite more than six years passing since the onset of the 2008 financial crisis, it appears that t...
Written by: Esposito, Mark: Tse, Terence.
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