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Narcissistic CEOs and executive compensation. (2013)
"..more narcissistic CEOs who've been with their firm longer receive more compensation ... although their firms do not necessarily perform better." Charles A. O'Reilly III, Professor of Management, Stanford University Bernadette...
The disturbing link between psychopathy and leadership. (2013)
“3% of trainee managers in this survey scored in the psychopath range - well above the 1% incidence in the general population.” Victor Lipman ‘Mind of the Manager’ blog...
Women, Power and Margaret Thatcher. (April 2013)
"Margaret Thatcher showed that biology had not handicapped women from achieving dominance in the human tribe," writes Professor Ian Robertson, holder of the Chair in Psyhcology at Trinity College Dublin....
Leadership discourse, culture, and corporate ethics: CEO-speak at News Corporation. (2013)
"The authors explore the language of leadership of global media mogul Rupert Murdoch in 2010, the year before the phone-hacking scandal in the UK came to public attention. Amernic,...
Should hubris be a disease? (2013)
"Whether we call hubris a disease is for me a pragmatic question. Could we prevent, screen for, or treat hubris? I doubt it, so let’s not call it a disease....
The dark side of personality and extreme leader behavior. (2013)
"Estimates of the base rate of managerial failure average around 50 per cent, which raises the question of how to account for such a high incidence of flawed management. Robert...
How different cultures perceive effective leadership. (2013)
Eastern and Western managers diverged significantly on four dimensions: Eastern managers were perceived to have taken more actions associated with successful leadership than their Western counterparts. Article by Caroline Rook, Former...
The truth behind testosterone: why men risk it all. (2013)
On days when London City traders made above-average profits, their testosterone levels went up. At the same time, cortisol levels were sensitive to the volatility in the market, which is...
Psychopathy in the workplace: The knowns and unknowns. (2013)
"...preliminary evidence suggests psychopathy is tied to at least some negative outcomes in the workplace, although there are also scattered suggestions of some positive outcomes too. Sarah Francis Smith,...
The relationship between psychopathy and the Full Range leadership model. (2013)
"Psychopathy positively correlated with passive leadership behavior, namely passive-management-by-exception and laissez-faire, but correlated negatively with individual consideration Kristie M. Westerlaken, Peter R. Woods; Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Queensland,...