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Executive hubris: the case of a bank CEO. (2013)
"Following speculation that the banking crisis of 2008 was partly caused by CEO hubris, the researchers analysed the letters to shareholders of a single bank’s CEO over ten years. Niamh M. Brennan, John P. Conroy, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol. 26 Iss: 2 pp. 172 - 195 Following newspaper speculation that the banking crisis of 2008 was partly c...
Written by: Brennan and Conroy.
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Social, behavioral, and cognitive influences on upper echelons during strategy process: A literature review. (2015)
“…exceedingly active research on relations between CEOs and their management teams has developed a plethora of constructs and empirical findings. Scholars may now wish to turn to understanding and comparing that plethora.” Philip Bromiley, University of California Devaki Rau, Northern Illinois University Journal of Management, 0149206315617240. This study reviews research on the social, behavioral, and co...
Written by: Bromiley, P., & Rau, D.
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Brazil’s Rousseff undone by hubris, economic missteps, (2016)
"...stubbornness, economic mismanagement and a tendency toward self-isolation... led her to rebuff advice that might have averted recession and saved her politically. Reuters > World, Tuesday 10 May 2016 Brad Brooks and Paulo Prada Minutes after taking her oath of office in 2011, President Dilma Rousseff stood before Congress and pledged to end the dirty back-room deals and kickback schemes at the heart of Brazilian po...
Written by: Brooks, Brad; Prado, Paulo; Reuters
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The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement. (2011)
"People ... make up stories to explain their own actions even when they have no clue about what is happening inside. The most powerful among us swat away doubt and choose upsides because not having answers feels so uncomfortable and potentially threatening. David Brooks, senior editor at THE WEEKLY STANDARD, contributing editor at NEWSWEEK. Formerly a reporter and editor at THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, he's had articles in THE NEW...
Written by: Brooks, David.
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The path to power and how to use it. (2013)
"Broughton reviews the different approaches to power taken by some of today’s leading CEOs. Call it what you like, raw power, its acquisition and use, still count in business. Philip Delves Broughton Financial Times, 15 July 2013 Power has bad connotations in management these days. It suggests headbangers and table-slammers, cigar-chomping men in smoke-filled rooms. So, many companies prefer the language o...
Written by: Broughton, Philip Delves.
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The myth of the strong leader: political leadership in the modern age. (2014)
"Brown warns of the dangers of leaders who, whether in a democracy or a tyranny, seek to dominate policy and all those around them. The reality or the delusion of unchallenged power often leads to faulty policy and misfortune for those governed Archie Brown, Emeritus Professor of Politics, Oxford University; Emeritus Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford; Fellow of the British Academy Published by Bodley Head, part of...
Written by: Brown, Archie.
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Essays: ‘On political leadership’. (2016)
“The yearning for a strong individual leader who will dominate all and sundry is the pursuit of a false god Published in 'Daedalus', the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Summer 2016 issue. Guest editor: Archie Brown, Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of Oxford From the Academy’s Press Release: “Published during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, these essays off...
Written by: Brown, Archie.
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Against the Führerprinzip: for collective leadership. (2016)
“Highlights the ineffectiveness and dangerousness of powerful individual leaders.” Prof. Archie Brown, University of Oxford. A chapter from the special edition of Daedalus (the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences) ‘On political leadership’, published summer 2016. "The Führerprinzip (‘leader principle’) has not been confined to Nazi Germany. The cult of the strong leader thrives in ma...
Written by: Brown, Archie.
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The myth of the strong leader? BBC Radio 4, 2014. Is it better to lead from the front, or advise from the side-line?
"Host Tom Sutcliffe asks whether it's better to lead from the front, or advise from the side-line. Richard Hytner celebrates the latter: those who wield influence and authority away from the limelight. Archie Brown, Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of Oxford, Richard Hytner, Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide Deputy Chairman, Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's Chief of Staff 1997-2007, now of the the chari...
Written by: Brown, Hytner, Powell, Rabbatts.
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Behavioral issues in the practical application of scenario thinking: Cognitive biases, effective group facilitation and overcoming business-as-usual thinking. (2016)
Participants’ cognitive biases can both help and hinder scenario thinking: but expert facilitation can challenge and attenuate individuals’ overconfidence. Stephanie Bryson, Megan Grime, Adarsh Murthy and George Wright; Strathclyde Business School. Chapter in Behavioral Operational Research, edited by Kunc, M., Malpass, J., & White, L., published by Springer. “(The authors) discuss and analyse the use of sce...
Written by: Bryson, Stephanie; Grime, Megan; Murthy, Adarsh; & Wright, George.
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