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Does power make you mad? (BBC radio programme: 2015)
Owen Bennett Jones speaks with a distinguished group of journalists, academics, psychologists, diplomats and politicians (including Lord David Owen, founder of the Daedalus Trust) to discuss the merits and abuses...
Special Issue: Beyond the bright side: dark personality in the workplace. (2015)
“..dedicated to closing gaps in our knowledge about negative aspects of organisational behaviour, particularly the role that dark personality plays in the workplace and in predicting negative organisational behaviour." Various...
Cortisol and testosterone increase financial risk taking and may destabilize markets. (2015)
“Stressful and competitive working environments could be increasing hormone levels and having an impact on decision-making.” Carlos Cueva, Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico, Universidad de Alicante and R. Edward Roberts,...
Guest Blog: Sir Bob Reid – ‘Leadership’. (2015)
“(The Daedalus Trust) seeks to identify, preserve and nurture the elements which will take our leaders towards achievement and success without the dangers of their going too far and taking...
Inclusive leadership: a framework for the global era (2015)
"...leaders no longer understand global financial ecosystems' complexity... fragmented actors make millions of decisions in isolation ...finance and capitalism have decoupled from economic value and the values of civilisation itself. Tomorrow's...
Overlapping semantics of leadership & heroism: Expectations of omnipotence, identification with ideal leaders & disappointment in real managers. (2015)
‘Leaders’ and ‘heroes’ are so tightly linked in our semantic construction of the world that speaking of one easily evokes associations with the other. Jan Ketil Arnulf; BI Norwegian Business School,...
Too arrogant for their own good? Why and when narcissists dismiss advice. (2015)
“…narcissistic managers may perform poorly because, among other reasons, they are particularly ineffective in taking advice from others when making decisions.” Edgar E. Kausel, University of Chile; Satoris S. Culbertson,...
Reducing CEO power can undermine a company’s legitimacy. (2015)
In high power-distance cultures, customers will view a strong CEO as a signal of legitimacy. In low power-distance cultures, a strong CEO is a warning flag. Published in IdeasForLeaders.com #610...
Hopes & hubris: ‘Latest Advances in Psychiatry (LAP)’ Symposium report. 2015
“..while hubris may have played a part in the downfall of huge international companies … there has been little research into its causes, let alone potential treatment.” Steve Titmarsh, Progress...
The trouble with being too confident. (2015)
“Too much self-confidence means you start missing the warning signs that you might be wrong … because, to you, the signs don’t even exist. Sydney Finkelstein ‘Syd weighs in’, BBC Worldwide...