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"Might the best guide to what is happening in Greece now be the heaving underbelly of Greek myth, that repository of the unimaginably cruel, disgraceful and disastrous aspects of human character and destiny? Harry Eyres, ‘The Slow Lane’ Financial Times, 30 January 2015 “The coverage of events in Greece has repeatedly reminded us that the Greeks (albeit of an earlier vintage) gave us the words politics, democracy, dr...

"VW’s cheating was not the act of a single rogue engineer, but when scandals like this occur, where does the moral responsibility lie?" Craig Smith, INSEAD Chaired Professor of Ethics and Social Responsibility, and Eric W. Orts, Wharton Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics  INSEAD Knowledge, 7 April, 2017 VW may have taken a big step towards resolving its emissions scandal in the US with its recent guilt...

"Overconfident CEOs over-estimate their ability to generate returns. As a result, they overpay for target companies and undertake value-destroying mergers. The effects are strongest if they have access to internal financing.   Malmendier, U., University of California, Berkeley Tate, G., University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles Journal of Financial Economics 89: 20-43. Does CEO overconfide...

“What can organizations and individuals do about bad bosses?" Prof. Ronald E. Riggio, Claremont McKenna College, California Psychology Today 6 August 2014. “We all likely have a story of that one (or more) terrible boss, who was either a tyrant, a bully, or just totally incompetent. In fact, it may seem that there are more bad bosses than good ones. “Psychologist Robert Hogan claims that 60-75 percent of managers...

“…the dark side represents the toxic assets of our personality. You can turn them into career weapons, but the group will generally lose the more you win.” Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, University College London Harvard Business Review. 2 Nov 2015 “…perhaps one may think about dark-side tendencies as overused strengths - tendencies that are fairly adaptive and conducive of short-term success, but may nonetheless lea...

"Of all of Napoleon’s blunders, none was more destructive and self-defeating than his decision to invade Russia. So why did Napoleon do it? Of course, Napoleon never imagined such an apocalyptic outcome. Professor William Nester, Department of Government and Politics, St. John's University, New York City. Diplomacy and Statecraft, Volume 22, Issue 4, 2011. Publishers Taylor and Francis Group. Published online 06...