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How to avoid recruiting a narcissist. (2014)
"Recent research by MWM Consulting suggests that the unchecked personalities of senior leaders can become a major destructive force and harder to detect than other corporate threats. More than 80 CEOs, chairmen and board directors shared their experience Jackie Switzer The Evening Standard, 28 January 2014 Narcissistic leaders are only interested in themselves and are more likely to make risky decision...
Written by: Switzer, Jackie.
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Talent Quarterly: The Dark Side Issue. (2016)
Reviews the role that leaders’ "dark sides" play in their careers with input from leading researchers on the topic including those who created the concept and have shaped it over the years. Various authors, Issue 8 2016 Articles in the Issue: The bright side of the dark; the dark side of the bright - Nassir Ghaemi …redefines what’s ‘normal’… explains how mildly manic moods help people to think quickly… wh...
Written by: Talent Quarterly
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The dominance behavioural system: A multidimensional transdiagnostic approach. (2014)
"Donald Trump's ego may be the size of his financial empire, but that doesn't mean he's the picture of mental health. Eliot Tang-Smith and Stephen Chen, Department of Psychology, University of California; Sheri L. Johnson, Department of Psychology, University of California, and Center for Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice 10 ...
Written by: Tang‐Smith, E., Johnson, S. L., & Chen, S.
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Dominant CEO, deviant strategy, and extreme performance: The moderating role of a powerful board. (2011)
“…it is possible that coupling dominant CEOs with powerful boards represents an ideal governance arrangement.” Jianyun Tang, Memorial University of Newfoundland Mary Crossan & W. Glenn Rowe, Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario Journal of Management Studies, 48(7), 1479-1503 (2011) “...dominant CEOS, powerful in the organization as compared to other members of the top ...
Written by: Tang, J., Crossan, M. & Rowe, W.G.
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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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"...findings from a large sample of U.S. publicly listed firms suggest that narcissistic CEOs care more about corporate social responsibility, but hubristic CEOs care less."
Tang, Y., Mack, D. Z., & Chen, G.
Strategic Management Journal.
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"Some CEOs are more narcissistic while others may be more hubristic, but these two groups of CEOs hold different attitudes towar... Written by: Tang, Y., Mack, D. Z., & Chen, G “CEO hubris leads to a lower level of company participation in socially responsible activities and a higher level of participation in socially irresponsible ones.”
Yi Tang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Cuili Qian, City University of Hong Kong; Guoli Chen, INSEAD, Singapore; Rui Shen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Strategic Management Journal 2015, 36: 1338–1357.
"The depth of a firm’... Written by: Tang, Y., Qian, C., Chen, G. and Shen, R. Taylor, Martin, “The love of power does more damage than the love of money ... of all the avenues .. a teenage daughter is the most successful puncturer of a CEO’s fantasies
Martin Taylor, former Chairman of Syngenta AG and former CEO of Barclays Bank.
View the video of his address below, or download his remarks here - MartinTa... Written by: Taylor, Martin. "Left unattended, (markets) are prone to instability, excess and abuse.
James Titcomb, The Telegraph, 10 June 2015
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has declared that the “age of irresponsibility” in the City of London is over as the Bank promised a crackdown on rogue traders.
"Left unattended, (markets) are prone to instability, excess and abuse.
“Markets are … powerful means for prosperity and security ... Written by: Telegraph, The. "In the mid 1990s dozens of JP Morgan bankers gathered for a legendary meeting to assess the possibility of building a business around the new-fangled concept of credit derivatives.
Gillian Tett is a British author and award-winning journalist at the Financial Times, where she is a markets and finance columnist and an assistant editor.
Little, Brown
In the mid 1990s, at a ... Written by: Tett, Gillian 
The differential effects of CEO narcissism and hubris on corporate social responsibility (2018)
How CEO hubris affects corporate social (ir)responsibility. (2015)
Conference 2013 Martin Taylor: pressures on senior businessmen
The ‘age of irresponsibility is over’ says Bank of England head as he promises crackdown on rogue traders. (2015)
Fool’s Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe. (2010)