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Too much testosterone, too much confidence: the psychology of banking. (2012)
There is something disturbingly compelling about reading the emails and instant messages exchanged by Barclays bankers in the process of rigging interest rates for their own gain. Ian Leslie The Guardian, 30 June 2012 The emails between bankers involved in the rate-setting scandal reveal a sexualised and illicit tone – like secret lovers. They also point to a deeper truth about the psychology of organisations....
Written by: Leslie, Ian.
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The Hubris Syndrome – revised edition. (2012)
"From their behaviour, beliefs and governing style, Owen has analysed Bush and Blair to show that their handling of the Iraq war was a litany of hubristic incompetence. David Owen (Lord Owen) trained and practised as a medical doctor before being elected a Labour MP in his home city of Plymouth. He served as Foreign Secretary under James Callaghan from 1977 until 1979. He co-founded and went on to ...
Written by: Owen, Lord David.
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Revision benefits from Bush/Blair memoirs, (2012)
David Owen’s original 'The Hubris Syndrome' proved a lightning rod for debate on the issue in 2007. A revised edition has just been released that benefits from published memoirs of the main players in the Iraq War. It also draws on new material published in Brain and other medical journals, and on evidence given to the Iraq Inquiry. All this reinforces Owen’s earlier assertion that George W Bush and Tony Blair developed hubris syndrome dur...
Written by: Owen, Lord David.
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What I see, what I do: how executive hubris affects firm innovation. (2012)
"This study explores the potential benefits of executive hubris to firm innovation. Both studies render robust support to the authors’ main theoretical prediction - that executive hubris is positively related to firm innovation.
Yi Tang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Jiatao Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hongyan Yang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
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"Hubris among CEOs is generally considered to be undesirable.. however the literature fails to provide a precise definition of CEO hubris and is silent on how to prevent it.
Valérie Petit, EDHEC Business School
Helen Bollaert, SKEMA Business School, Univ. Lille Nord de France.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS Volume 108, Number 3 (2012), 265-283, DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-1097-1
Hubris amo... Written by: Petit and Bollaert. "Political and technocratic elites were hubristically detached from the process of financial innovation as it took the form of ‘bricolage’.” This put finance beyond technical control or management.
Ewald Engelen; Professor of Financial Geography, University of Amsterdam
Ismail Ertürk; Senior Lecturer in Banking, Manchester Business School
Julie Froud; Professor of Financial Innovation, Manchester Busin... Written by: Engelen, Ertürk et al. "Hubristic pride can exacerbate prejudice, while a more self-confident, authentic pride may help to reduce racism and homophobia. How we feel about ourselves influences how we feel about people who are different from us
Claire E. Ashton-James, VU University Amsterdam
Jessica L. Tracy, University of British Columbia
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 2012 38: 466
Hubristic pride can exacerbat... Written by: Ashton-James, Tracy. “Individuals high in social dominance …are …less aware of corruption because of their feeling of entitlement to greater power …
Valerie Rosenblatt, assistant professor, San Francisco State University
Journal of Business Ethics 111(2): 237-251.
From the Abstract: This article uses social dominance theory (SDT) to explore the dynamic and systemic nature of the initiation and maintenance of organizational c... Written by: Rosenblatt, V. Ring a bell? "His career was a moving disaster but through seductiveness, charm, and manipulativeness he'd got away with it.
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD Working Paper No. 2012/119/EFE, November 23, 2012
This article begins with an elaborate example of a SOB - Seductive Operational Bully - or psychopath “lite.” It not... Written by: Kets de Vries, M. F. “Power posing”, standing in a posture of confidence, can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain
Amy Cuddy, social psychologist
TED Talk June 2012.
“We know that our minds change our bodies, but is it also true that our bodies change our minds?
“… we know that in primate hierarchies … if an individual needs to take over an alpha role suddenly, within a few days that individual's testosterone ... Written by: Cuddy, Amy.
Flying too close to the sun? Hubris among CEOs and how to prevent it. (2012)
Misrule of experts? The financial crisis as elite debacle. (2012)
Pride and prejudice: how feelings about the self influence judgements of others. (2012)
Hierarchies, power inequalities, and organizational corruption. (2012)
The psychopath in the C suite: redefining the SOB. (2012)
Your body language shapes who you are. (2012)