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From molecule to market: steroid hormones and financial risk-taking. (2010)
"We survey research on steroid hormones and their cognitive effects, and examine potential links to trader performance in financial markets. Preliminary findings suggest that cortisol codes for risk and testosterone for reward. John M. Coates, Mark Gurnell and Zoltan Sarnyai Little is known about the role of the endocrine system in financial decision-making. Here, we survey research on steroid hormones and their cognitive...
Written by: Coates, Gurnell and Sarnyai.
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Leaders, self-confidence, and hubris: what’s the difference? (2010)
“Success can spell disaster for a leader. On the surface, this makes no sense. M. Kerfoot, Vice President/Chief Clinical Officer, Aurora Health System, Milwaukee, WI; Nursing Economic$ Editorial Board Member. On Leadership; Nursing Economics, 28(5), 349. Success can spell disaster for a leader. On the surface, this makes no sense. One would assume if a leader has learned how to be successful, this pattern would conti...
Written by: Kerfoot, M.
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The Icarus Syndrome: a history of American hubris. (2010)
"Hubris is an affliction born of success and, therefore, one to which western societies, the USA in particular, are especially prone. In dazzling color, he portrays three extraordinary generation" Peter Beinhart, associate professor of journalism and political science at the City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation Harper Collins 2010 I...
Written by: Beinhart, Peter
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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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Fool’s Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe. (2010)
"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
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How They Blew It: the CEOs and Entrepreneurs Behind Some of the World’s Most Catastrophic Business Failures. (2010)
"These people did something remarkable - they built huge business empires worth billions. Then they all did something unbelievable - they managed to lose it. They had it, now they don't. Jamie Oliver - former Daily Telegraph columnist, his work has also appeared in the Financial Times, the Independent, the Observer, London Evening Standard and a range of leading business magazines.
Written by: Oliver, Jamie and Goodwin, Tony:
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Destructive leaders and dysfunctional organizations: a therapeutic approach. (2009)
“…explores the damaging effects of destructive leadership on organizations and provides the tools necessary for early recognition, assessment, and treatment. Alan Goldman, Professor of Management, Arizona State University. Published by Cambridge University Press. Organizational behavior and leadership research has traditionally been deeply influenced by positive psychology and appreciative inquiry. Yet, in recent times, a wav...
Written by: Goldman, Alan.
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Splendors and miseries of the brain. (2009)
"People in powerful positions who reject the idea that exercising their power changes their brain’s neurobiology would do well to reflect on Zeki’s work illustrating the vulnerability of brain chemistry to the power of love Semir Zeki, visual neurobiologist in the Department of Cognitive Neurology at University College London. Wiley-Blackwell People in powerful positions who reject the idea that exercising...
Written by: Zeki, Semir.
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Cognitive archaeology: uses, methods and results. (2009)
".. authors have used retrospective analysis to describe preclinical linguistic decline in written texts and spoken language samples. This paper reviews the methods available for classifying and comparing such samples, and presents some exploratory analyses of historical texts derived from verbatim records of preclinical spoken activity. Peter Garrard, University of Southampton School of Medicine, Division of Clinical Neurosci...
Written by: Garrard, Peter.
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Second-to-fourth digit ratio predicts success among high-frequency financial traders. (Jan 2009)
"The second-to-fourth digit length ratio ... predicted the traders’ long-term profitability as well as the number of years they remained in the business. 2D:4D also predicted the sensitivity of their profitability to increases in both circulating testosterone and in market volatility John M Coates, M Gurnell and A Rustichini. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U S A, 106: 623–628...
Written by: Coates, Gurnell and Rustichini.
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