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“Narcissism is ... a duty to watch ourselves, vigilantly self-regulating our appearance in the world … And these kinds of self-reflections are not always wasteful." Shahidha Bari Times Literary Supplement, 28 April 2017 “Narcissus lends his unhappy name to those who are inordinately self-concerned and inclined to fixate improperly on matters of their own appearance; but do those habits themselves deserve rebuke? “Freud discerns ...

"Denial, ego and hubris are all parts of human nature. They are like gravity. We don’t defeat them. To move forward we must actively resist them every day."   Eric Barker, author Published in his blog ‘Barking up the wrong tree’, 8 September 2013 “CEOs make mistakes that could and should have been avoided, not just with the benefit of hindsight, but on the basis of information available to them at the tim...

"Takes a middle ground between the academic and practitioner approaches to leadership by outlining practical guidelines that are evidence-based." Julian Barling PhD, Queen’s School of Business, Canada. Oxford University Press, 6 March 2014. From the review by Prof. Clive Fullagar, Kansas State University: “The literature on leadership broadly consist of two kinds of book: those that are directed at an a...

"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...

“Given loss-making Tesla’s history of missed deadlines, this target needed to be met to earn the faith of consumers and investors alike BBC News: technology (online) 5 April 2016 “Tesla Motors has revealed that supplies of its Model X electric car have been impacted by a shortage of parts meaning delays for some who have ordered them. “… It was frank about the reasons for the delay: "The root causes of the p...

Aired recently on BBC 2, Putin: The New Tsar tracks the extraordinary rise of an ex-KGB colonel to Boris Yeltsin's successor. The documentary contains commentary throughout by Professor Ian Robertson, Founding Director of Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and member of the Advisory Group for the Daedalus Trust, on the effects of power on the Russian president's personality. Here are some of the points raised by Robertson on Putin thro...

"Hubris is an affliction born of success and, therefore, one to which western societies, the USA in particular, are especially prone. In dazzling color, he portrays three extraordinary generation"   Peter Beinhart, associate professor of journalism and political science at the City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation Harper Collins 2010 I...

"...companies with overconfident CFOs use lower discount rates to value cash flows, and that they invest more, use more debt, are less likely to pay dividends, are more likely to repurchase shares, and they use proportionally more long-term, as opposed to short-term, debt.   Ben-David, I., University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Graham, J.R., Harvey, C.R., Duke University, Fuqua School of Business NB...