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Leader corruption depends on power and testosterone. (2014)
“Amount of followers and discretionary choices independently predicted leader corruption… power interacted with endogenous testosterone in predicting corruption, which was highest when leader power and baseline testosterone were both high. Samuel Bendahan a,b, Christian Zehnder a, François P. Pralong c, John Antonakis a a: Faculty of Business and Economics, Department of Organizational Behavior,...
Written by: Bendahan, Samuel; Zehnder, Christian et. al.
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The sweet spot between hubris and humility. (2013)
"When the founder of Intel was asked how it felt being called the “Father of Silicon Valley” he responded, “It makes me a little proud and a little humble.” There is a sweet spot between hubris and humility that is the key to greatness. Christopher Bergland, three-time champion of the Triple Ironman, holder of a Guinness World Record for treadmill running (153.76-miles in 24 hours): endurance athlete, coach, author....
Written by: Bergland, Christopher.
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Guest Blog: Generation Y and Hubris Syndrome. (2015)
"..my Gen Y friend’s view was that the organisation was lucky to have him ...it was less about what he could contribute and more about the opportunities that his employer could provide to learn and be creative. Sally Bibb, business owner, author, consultant and member of Daedalus Trust Steering Group. Another in an occasional series of contributions from members of our Advisory Board and other friends of the Daedalus Trust. Pu...
Written by: Bibb, Sally.
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Are overconfident CEOs born or made? Evidence of self-attribution bias from frequent acquirers. (2008)
"Many CEOs overestimate their own negotiating skills and overlook the element of luck in successful mergers, acquisitions, and other deals. CEOs appear to overly attribute their role in successful deals, leading to more deals even though these subsequent deals are value destructive. Billet, M. & Qian, Y., University of Iowa Management Science 54(6): 1037-1051. Many CEOs overestimate their own negotiating sk...
Written by: Billet and Qian.
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Fresh HBOS inquiries hold no prospect of speedy judgment. (2015)
“The main consequence of the regulators’ costly and time-consuming inquiry into the £20.5bn collapse of HBOS is, wait for it: yet another costly and time-consuming inquiry. Caroline Binham and Emma Dunkley Ft.com, 19 November 2015. About 10 former senior managers and board members of HBOS - among them former chief executives James Crosby and Andy Hornby, and former chairman Lord Stevenson - may now face a further investigati...
Written by: Binham, Caroline; Dunkley, Emma.
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Conference 2012: Dr Ricardo Blaug video clip – How power corrupts
Blaug, Ricardo. "Hubris is a serious and recurrent problem associated with the processes by which individual, group and organisations simultaneously create meaning. Dr Ricardo Blaug, Reader in Democracy and Political Theory, University of Westminster. Dr Blaug refers to recent examples such as investment bankers and the corrupt leaders throughout political history. Video clip from the Daedalus Trust/RMS conference 'The Intoxica...
Written by: Blaug, Dr Ricardo.
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Research Café 2014: Ricardo Blaug introduction – Leadership, democracy and hubris
"The theme today is the nature of leadership….Lord Owen has made a very interesting remark in his book The Hubris Syndrome that one possible ‘treatment’ for hubris may in fact be democracy… One of several videos from our highly successful 'Leadership, democracy and hubris', Research Café. This well-attended event, the fourth cafe so far, was organised jointly by the Daedalus Trust and the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the Uni...
Written by: Blaug, Dr Ricardo.
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How Power Corrupts: cognition and democracy in organisations. (2010)
"Drawing on the history of political ideas and current research on the nature of power, Blaug shows that corruption affects both elites and subordinates, and that its symptoms are best treated by radical democracy. Ricardo Blaug, Reader in Democracy and Political Theory University of Westminster, a qualified and experienced psychiatric social worker and an award-winning author and teacher. He has worked as a democratic theorist...
Written by: Blaug, Ricardo
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The corporate psychopaths theory of the global financial crisis. (2011)
"psychopaths in corporations … had a major part in causing the crisis. Their rise has been facilitated by changes in the way people are employed, particularly in the last third of the twentieth century." Clive R. Boddy, Professor of Leadership and Organisation Behaviour, Middlesex University Journal of Business Ethics, 102(2), 255-259 The Global Financial Crisis raised many questions about who was responsible. Once-gre...
Written by: Boddy, Clive R.
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Corporate psychopaths: Organisational destroyers. (2011)
“..as the recent global financial crisis has highlighted…the conscience-free behaviour of a small group of corporate (psychopaths) can potentially bring down the entire western system of business. Clive Boddy, Visiting Professor, University of Lincoln Pub. Palgrave Macmillan Publisher’s preview “Although they comprise only a small percentage of employees and senior managers, corporate psychopaths have ...
Written by: Boddy, Clive.
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