Indexes - all Resources
Executive hubris: the case of a bank CEO. (2013)
"Following speculation that the banking crisis of 2008 was partly caused by CEO hubris, the researchers analysed the letters to shareholders of a single bank’s CEO over ten years. Niamh M. Brennan, John P. Conroy, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol. 26 Iss: 2 pp. 172 - 195 Following newspaper speculation that the banking crisis of 2008 was partly c...
Written by: Brennan and Conroy.
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The dark triad of personality: A 10 year review. (2013)
Reviews the preceding 10 years' research into Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy, addressing key issues and controversies Adrian Furnham and Steven C. Richards, University College London; and Delroy L. Paulhus, University of British Columbia Social and Personality Psychology Compass 7/3 (2013): 199–216 “How many kinds of bad characters are there? According to Paulhus and Williams in 2002, the ans...
Written by: Furnham, Adrian; Richards, Steven C; Paulhus, Delroy L.
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The double-edged sword of grandiose narcissism: Implications for successful and unsuccessful leadership among US Presidents. (2013)
Grandiose narcissism is associated with superior overall greatness and several positive measures of performance – but also with negative outcomes, including congressional impeachment resolutions and unethical behaviors. Ashley L. Watts (1), Scott O. Lilienfeld (1), Sarah Francis Smith (1), Joshua D. Miller (2), W. Keith Campbell (2), Irwin D. Waldman (1), Steven J. Rubenzer (3), and Thomas J. Faschingbauer (4) 1 Department o...
Written by: Watts, A. L., Lilienfeld, S. O., Smith, S. F. et al.
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On narcissism: the mirror and the self. (2013) People from Tiger Woods to the Obamas are routinely denounced for narcissism. But are there good as well as bad types of self-love?
"It is the fashion to see people increasingly as one of two types - a narcissist, or the victim of one - so perhaps it is worth asking precisely what is meant by the word. Its usage is puritanical: it is intended to inflict shame Rachel Cusk New Statesman.com 03 August 2013 It is the fashion to see people increasingly as one of two types - a narcissist, or the victim of one - so perhaps it is worth asking preci...
Written by: Cusk, Rachel.
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Born to lead? A twin design and genetic association study of leadership role occupancy. (2013)
"The authors address leadership emergence and the possibility that there is a partially innate predisposition to occupy a leadership role... the first study to identify a specific genotype associated with the tendency to occupy a leadership position. Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, University College London, Centre for Economic Performance (LSE), Slava Mikhaylov, University College London, Christopher T. Dawes, New Yo...
Written by: De Neve, Mikhaylov et al.
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Hubris in leadership: a peril of unbridled intuition? (2015)
"The authors argue that intuition is a central factor in hubristic leadership. Further, that when intuition becomes misunderstood, unchecked or unbridled, hubristic behaviour is more likely to appear. Guy Claxton, University of Winchester, UK David Owen, House of Lords, London, UK Eugene Sadler-Smith, University of Surrey, UK ‘Leadership’ 2015 Volume 11, Issue 1 (2015), pp.57-78. Resea...
Written by: Claxton, Owen and Sadler-Smith.
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How bankers believed their own hype. (2013)
“..groupthink and wishful thinking pose the biggest risks in finance, not deliberate malevolence. Investors - and bankers - should read this Princeton research, and stand warned. Gillian Tett ft.com, 22 March 2013 “It’s hard to imagine that any banker close to the mortgage market in 2006 could have failed to spot the excesses; or that anyone repackaging those loans into bonds … “securitising” them… did not s...
Written by: Tett, Gillian.
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Conference 2012: programme, abstracts and bios
Materials from our conference 'The intoxication of power: From neurosciences to hubris in healthcare and public life' are now available.
The event, held on 9 October 2012, was organised by the Daedalus Trust in association with the Psychiatry Section of the Royal Society of Medicine.
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"‘Fearless Dominance’, which reflects the boldness associated with psychopathy, was associated with better rated presidential performance, leadership, persuasiveness, crisis management, Congressional relations, and allied variables;
By Lilienfeld, Scott O.; Waldman, Irwin D.; Landfield, Kristin; Watts, Ashley L.; Rubenzer, Steven; Faschingbauer, Thomas R.; Emory University
Journal of Personality and Social Psych... Written by: Lilienfeld, Waldman, Landfield et al. Rappeport, Alan. "Kevin Sharer, recently retired CEO of Amgen, provides a perspective on risk taking from someone who has been at the front line. "Seizing opportunity always involves risk. You've got to have courage
Alan Rappeport
Financial Times ft.com/presscuttings
Monday December 10, 2012
"Seizing opportunity always involves risk. You've got to have courage.” Kevin Sharer, recently retired CEO... Written by: tim.benton7
Fearless dominance and the U.S. presidency. Implications of psychopathic personality traits for successful and unsuccessful political leadership. (2012)
Seizing opportunity always involves risk: Lessons from corporate America. (2012)