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Intel’s Andy Grove and the difference between good fear and bad fear. (2016)
"Excessive internal focus reduced the attention Nokia devoted to processing external threats, generating a mortal combination of high internal fear and low external fear. Herminia Ibarra ft.com, 11 April 2016...
Hubris characterises African Bank boss Kirkinis, Myburgh Commission says. (2016)
"Hubris often indicates a loss of contact with reality and an overestimation of one’s own competence, accomplishments or capabilities Maarten Mittnjer, BusinessDay Live, Business / Financial Services, 12 May 2016...
The bear-king or the price of hubris. (2016)
….nobody dared bring the king any bad news, They made sure he only heard the things he wanted to hear. Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries. In ‘Telling fairy tales...
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...
May event aims to develop practical ‘Anti-Hubris Toolkit’
This event has now been held. For a report and downloadable summary see Anti-hubris toolkit taking shape For a wrap up, see: Quo Vadis Hubris? A personal view of the Guildford...
Incoming UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) chief warns of ‘hubris risk’ in firms’ culture. (2016)
"Hubris should be classed alongside credit and liquidity risks. Jill Treanor The Guardian>Regulators, Monday 9 May 2016. Andrew Bailey (pictured), incoming chief executive of the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA),...
CEO power and CEO hubris: a prelude to financial misreporting? (2016)
“…firms accused of financial misreporting exhibit features of strong CEO power and hubris…Governance mechanisms, especially independent boards of directors, do not seem to be effective in detecting or preventing financial...
Taming power: ‘generative historical consciousness’. (2016)
Is the capacity for corruption inherent in the nature of power? A mechanism for taming power could be ‘Generative historical consciousness’. David. G. Winter, University of Michigan American Psychologist, Vol...
Narcissism – A necessary but precarious requirement for leading at the top. (2016)
“The behaviors we love to hate may be essential for a leader’s success.” Jay Conger, Professor of Leadership Studies, Claremont McKenna College, LA Part of Talent Quarterly’s ‘The Dark Side...
Boom Bust Boom, a Pythonesque look at financial crashes. (2016)
“While Nobel Prize winners, academics and economists … mention numerous reasons for these meltdowns, hubris is often cited as the chief culprit Ken Jaworowski New York Times > Movies, 10...