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"When a congressional hearing flayed Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf for failing to stop employees setting up phony accounts for customers... he seemed utterly unable to read a room." Jerry Useem, staff writer The Atlantic, July/August 2017 issue "Over time, leaders lose mental capacities - most notably for reading other people - that were essential to their rise." “...When various lawmakers lit into John Stump...

Professor Trevor Robbins discusses the hubris syndrome and its critical involvement in deficient decision-making. Professor Robbins also makes observations on how damage to the frontal lobe, gender and chronic stress have effects on decision-making. From the conference ‘Power, gender and hubris: success and arrogance as risks to leadership in health care and beyond' Held at the Royal Society of Medicine in London on 9 May 2017. ...

Dr Farrah Jarral, broadcaster and Paddington Green Health Centre GP discusses the history of anthropology and how it shaped our contemporary understanding of the world, for good and ill. Dr Jarral argues that “anthropology has helped us understand cultures different from our own, but was also used to enforce power structures, racial and gender hierarchies.” Dr Jarral also focuses on the new, speculative frontiers that anthropology is heading...

Professor Douglas Cairns, University of Edinburgh,  discusses the classical definition of Hubris. He describes how it was defined by the great classical thinkers, in relation to temperament and law, and how it relates to modern morals. From the conference ‘Power, gender and hubris: success and arrogance as risks to leadership in health care and beyond' Held at the Royal Society of Medicine in London on 9 May 2017. Watch the vid...

Sir Anthony Seldon, University of Buckingham Vice-Chancellor, addresses five topics:

• Hubris as it has affected recent UK Prime Ministers, from Margaret Thatcher to David Cameron (“four out of the five suffered hubris, an 80% rate that may or may not apply across all 54”)
• Why might Prime Ministers be unusually hubristic? “You don’t find humble, meek people wanting to be Prime Minister”.
• A closer look ...

“We often talk about the effects of power without bothering to define it. … The topic is often restricted to the psychological effects of power on people, how they succumb to hubris etc. … I’d like to discuss three definitions of power: blunt power, agenda power and ideological power.” From ‘Power, gender and hubris: success and arrogance as risks to leadership in health care and beyond' conference Royal Society of Me...