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Power changes how the brain responds to others. (2013)
"By tracking participants' brains, the authors found that empathy for a colleague performing an action was high amongst ‘powerless’ people, but much lower amongst people who were ‘powerful’. Jeremy Hogeveen and Sukhvinder S. Obhi, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario: Michael Inzlicht, University of Toronto, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Jul 1 , 2013, Reviewed by Chris Benderev, NPR, 10 A...
Written by: Hogeveen, Inzlicht and Obhi.
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When does narcissistic leadership become problematic? Dick Fuld at Lehman Brothers. (2013)
"The connection between narcissism and leadership is well established.... The author argues that a single individual may at different times be both constructive and reactive Mark Stein, School of Management, University of Leicester, Journal of Management Inquiry 2013 22: 282 The connection between narcissism and leadership is well established. Narcissists tend to enjoy the limelight bequeathed by positions of...
Written by: Stein, Mark.
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The social influence of executive hubris: Cross-cultural comparison and indigenous factors. (2013)
“... the social influence of executive hubris is stronger in the Chinese context than in the US." Prof. J. Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Asst. Prof. A.P.Y Tang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Management International Review, 53(1), 83-107. “…executive hubris brought about by social influence in different cultural environments is not well understood. “Anchored in the upper eche...
Written by: Li, J., & Tang, A. P. Y.
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Linguistic biomarkers of Hubris syndrome. (2013)
"The researchers ..examined.. the speeches of two UK Prime Ministers said to meet criteria for hubris syndrome (Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair) and one (John Major) who did not. Peter Garrard, Vassiliki Rentoumi, Christian Lambert: Stroke and Dementia Research Centre, St George's University of London, UK, David Owen, House of Lords, London, UK Cortex, 2013 Leaders' use of language can reflect psych...
Written by: Garrard, Rentoumi, Lambert, Owen.
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Making It Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the men who blew up the British economy. (2013)
"How on earth had a small Scottish bank grown so quickly to become a global financial giant that could do such immense damage when it collapsed? Iain Martin - editor, The Scotsman (2001-2004), Scotland on Sunday (2004-2006), deputy editor The Sunday Telegraph (2006). Political columnist for The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph, the Wall Street Journal and the Daily Mail. He contributes to Financial News and Standpoint mag...
Written by: Martin, Iain.
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How Kevin Rudd’s campaign unravelled. (Australian Financial Review 2013).
"A diagnosis of ‘grandiose narcissism’ ie. hubris helped Rudd's political opponents to a landslide. A fascinating look at the Australian election and the decisive role of hubris. Pamela Williams Australian Financial Review, 9 September 2013 After the highly unpopular premiership of Julia Gillard, Australia’s Labor Party was lagging badly in the polls. So Kevin Rudd, who in the public’s eyes at least was...
Written by: Williams, Pamela.
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Science can help to spot symptoms of executive hubris. (Financial Times, 2013)
Tett, Gillian. "How can an investor tell if a bank is heading for danger? Analysts have proposed all manner of financial measures. But why not analyse the words of the person running the bank? Gillian Tett Financial Times, 23 September 2013 How can an investor tell if a bank is heading for danger? In the past five years, analysts have proposed all manner of financial measures. But why not analyse the words of ...
Written by: tim.benton7
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Neuroscience may help us understand financial bubbles. (2013)
"New research suggests market bubbles are driven by a biological impulse to predict others’ behaviour ... people are more likely to overvalue assets in a bubble ... Benedetto De Martino, Senior Research Fellow in Neuroeconomics at Royal Holloway Will de Freitas, Editor, The Conversation Richard Taffler, Professor of Finance at University of Warwick The Conversation, 18 September 2013 ...
Written by: De Martino, Bossaerts and Camerer.
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Power corrupts but it also plays with your mind: Lloyd George, Chamberlain and Thatcher all suffered from ‘hubris syndrome’. (2013)
Owen, Lord David: "British Prime Ministers such as David Lloyd George, Chamberlain and Thatcher and US President George W Bush met the clinical diagnosis of Hubris Syndrome, first described in 2009 by Lord Owen, the former British foreign secretary, who is a trained neurologist. As reported by Alison Boulton, The Independent, Monday 23 September 2013 Britain's current leaders in both business and politics shoul...
Written by: tim.benton7
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Conference 2013: Clayton and Wilkins abstract. A fish out of water and temporal myopia
Clayton & Wilkins. "There is a bit of Hubris in everyone. One might wonder why that is? It can be argued that we place too much importance on the self in the current moment – in the present. This is 'temporal myopia'. Nicky Clayton and Clive Wilkins There is a bit of Hubris in everyone. One might wonder why that is? It can be argued that we place too much importance on the self in the current moment – in the present. In fac...
Written by: Clayton, Nicky and Wilkins, Clive.
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