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Narcissistic CEOs and executive compensation. (2013)
"..more narcissistic CEOs who've been with their firm longer receive more compensation ... although their firms do not necessarily perform better." Charles A. O'Reilly III, Professor of Management, Stanford University Bernadette Doerr, University of California, Berkeley David F. Caldwell, Santa Clara University Jennifer A. Chatman, University of California, Berkeley The Leadership Quarte...
Written by: O'Reilly III, Charles A. et al.
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The disturbing link between psychopathy and leadership. (2013)
“3% of trainee managers in this survey scored in the psychopath range - well above the 1% incidence in the general population.” Victor Lipman ‘Mind of the Manager’ blog Psychology Today, posted 23 April 2013 “..troubling research indicates that in the ranks of senior management, psychopathic behavior may be more common than we think - more prevalent in fact than the amount such seriously aberrant behav...
Written by: Lipman, Victor.
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Women, Power and Margaret Thatcher. (April 2013)
"Margaret Thatcher showed that biology had not handicapped women from achieving dominance in the human tribe," writes Professor Ian Robertson, holder of the Chair in Psyhcology at Trinity College Dublin. "(She also) taught us that women leaders are not immune to the distorting – and sometimes corrupting – effects of power that we have seen throughout the ages in men. "Margaret Thatcher apparently was a great admirer of Tony Blair, and v...
Written by: Roberston, Ian
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Leadership discourse, culture, and corporate ethics: CEO-speak at News Corporation. (2013)
"The authors explore the language of leadership of global media mogul Rupert Murdoch in 2010, the year before the phone-hacking scandal in the UK came to public attention. Amernic, J: Joseph L Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto Craig, R: School of Accounting and Finance, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia Journal of Business Ethics, December 2013, Volume 118, Issue 2, pp 379-394...
Written by: Amernic, J. and Craig, R.
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Should hubris be a disease? (2013)
"Whether we call hubris a disease is for me a pragmatic question. Could we prevent, screen for, or treat hubris? I doubt it, so let’s not call it a disease. Richard Smith, director of the United Health Group’s chronic disease initiative and former editor of the BMJ BMJ Group Blogs, 12 Feb 2013 Whether we call hubris a disease is for me a pragmatic question. Could we prevent, screen for, or treat hubris? I do...
Written by: Smith, Richard.
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The dark side of personality and extreme leader behavior. (2013)
"Estimates of the base rate of managerial failure average around 50 per cent, which raises the question of how to account for such a high incidence of flawed management. Robert B. Kaiser, Kaiser Leadership Solutions, USA; James M. LeBreton, Pennsylvania State University; & Joyce Hogan, Hogan Assessment Systems, USA. One of the articles in Applied Psychology’s special issue: ‘Beyond the bright side: dark personality in t...
Written by: Kaiser, Robert B.; LeBreton, James M. & Hogan, Joyce.
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How different cultures perceive effective leadership. (2013)
Eastern and Western managers diverged significantly on four dimensions: Eastern managers were perceived to have taken more actions associated with successful leadership than their Western counterparts. Article by Caroline Rook, Former INSEAD Dutch Alumni Fellow; now of the Lord Ashcroft International Business School, Cambridge; with Benjamin Kessler, INSEAD Web Editor Insead 21 Nov 2013 Based on the workin...
Written by: Agrawal, Anupam & Rook, Caroline
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The truth behind testosterone: why men risk it all. (2013)
On days when London City traders made above-average profits, their testosterone levels went up. At the same time, cortisol levels were sensitive to the volatility in the market, which is a measure of risk and uncertainty. Dr John Coates Wired.co.uk, January 2013 In research published in 2008, Coates found that, on days when London City traders made an above-average profit, their testosterone levels went up. At ...
Written by: Coates, John.
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Psychopathy in the workplace: The knowns and unknowns. (2013)
"...preliminary evidence suggests psychopathy is tied to at least some negative outcomes in the workplace, although there are also scattered suggestions of some positive outcomes too. Sarah Francis Smith, Scott O. Lilienfeld; Department of Psychology, Emory University, United States Aggression and Violent Behavior; Volume 18, Issue 2, March–April 2013, Pages 204–218 Psychopathy in the workplace has received ...
Written by: Smith and Lilienfeld.
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The relationship between psychopathy and the Full Range leadership model. (2013)
"Psychopathy positively correlated with passive leadership behavior, namely passive-management-by-exception and laissez-faire, but correlated negatively with individual consideration Kristie M. Westerlaken, Peter R. Woods; Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 54, Issue 1, January 2013, Pages 41–46 This study is one of the first to e...
Written by: Westerlaken and Woods.
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