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Psychology suggests that power doesn’t make people bad—it just reveals their true natures (2016)
"The more power people get, the more freedom they feel they have to be their authentic selves, acting consistently with their goals and values. In other words, power isn’t inherently corrosive. It simply brings our true nature out into the open."
Quartz, 14th October 2016
Kraus, Michael W., assistant professor, Yale University School of Management
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"...One of the chief characteristics of hubris is blindness — the inability to see it in oneself, much less admit it and do something about it."
Jonathan Mackey, managing partner in Heidrick & Struggles, Sharon Toye, partner in Heidrick & Struggles
strategy+business, November 29, 2017
Image: Flickr / purpleslog Written by: Jonathan Mackey, Sharon Toye "...In spite of the claim that there is both a “bright side” and a “dark side” to narcissistic leadership, overall, there is little evidence that firms with narcissistic CEOs perform better in the long term than do those with less narcissistic leaders, but significant evidence that they can put their organizations at risk."
Charles A.O'Reil... Written by: Charles A. O'Reilly, Bernadette Doerr, Jennifer A. Chatman "...the hardest lesson may not be dealing with the ignobility conferred by your newfound lack of status, the really tough bit is dealing with your newfound sense of self."
Melissa Viney, journalist.
The Guardian, 28 October 2017
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"Eg... Written by: Melissa Viney "In the case of President Trump, researchers conclude he is an 'emotionally unstable innovator'."
Queensland University of Technology
EurekAlert 27 July 2017
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"An international research team, led by [Queensland University of Technology]'s Associate Professor Martin Obschonka from the Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research, employed a...computerised scientific method of analysing digital footprints [on Twitter] to... Written by: Queensland University of Technology "Research over decades suggests that it’s very difficult to change core aspects of your personality after age 30. But you can—through self-awareness, appropriate goal setting, and persistence..."
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, CEO of Hogan Assessments
Harvard Business Review, September-October 2017 Issue
"When considering what it takes to succeed at work, we often focus on innate strengths: high intelligence, the ability to... Written by: Daedalus admin "...when there’s ambiguity in the context, people convince themselves that they deserve more resources than others, a form of motivated reasoning that in turn facilitate[s] their self-serving behavior."
Morela Hernandez, associate professor of business administration at Darden School of Business, University of Virginia.
MITSloan Management Review, 18 Oct 2017
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"...feeling entitled... Written by: Hernandez, M. "The challenge...is to change social systems in which the abuses of power arise and continue unchecked."
Dacher Keltner, professor of psychology at University of California, Berkeley.
Harvard Business Review, October 13, 2017
"...my research into the social psychology of power suggests that — without exculpating corrupt individuals — we also need to take a hard look at the social systems in which they commi... Written by: Keltner, D. “…Sometimes, those who succumb to hubris can act like toddlers. (A) recent example is the video of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick berating one of his drivers..."
Vince Molinaro, best-selling author and leadership adviser
Personal blog, 23 June 2017.
“(Hubris) is a challenge that all leaders must manage – especially those who are extremely successful and yield great power”.
“…Sometimes, those who succumb to hu... Written by: Molinaro, V. "...high corporate managerial hubris predicts low strategic emphasis on advertising relative to R&D..."
MinChung Kim, Ulsan National University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea; Guiyang Xiong Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University, US; Kwang-Ho Kim, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Republic of Korea
Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 1-20, 22 May 2017
Abstract:... Written by: Kim, M., Xiong, G., & Kim, K. H. 
How leaders and their teams can stop executive hubris (2017)
“See You in Court”: How CEO narcissism increases firms’ vulnerability to lawsuits (2017)
‘It was like a bereavement’: life after leaving a big job (2017)
Using tweets to decrypt the personality of Donald Trump and other powerful people (2017)
Could your personality derail your career? (2017)
Putting an end to leaders’ self-serving behavior (2017)
Sex, power, and the systems that enable men like Harvey Weinstein (2017)
Gut check: have you succumbed to hubris? (2017)
Where does pride lead? Corporate managerial hubris and strategic emphasis. (2017)