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Conference 2012 overview: “an important step” in raising profile of hubris
Our first major conference marked an important step in raising public awareness of hubris and its potential for far-reaching impacts. Organised jointly by the Daedalus Trust and the Royal Society...
How power transforms the presidential brain. (2012)
"Power changes people. After four years in office, Obama is less empathetic. Romney lacks empathy even now, even before the immense power of presidential office takes its hold, if he wins,...
Prozac leadership and the limits of positive thinking. (2012)
"Blind allegiance to organizational optimism lies at the heart of many of the financial miscalculations that drove the Great Recession.. optimism tends to resemble a well-intended but addictive drug Collinson,...
The New Few: Or a Very British Oligarchy. (2012)
"Bored with watching corrupt politicians jockeying for power, ordinary Britons are feeling disconnected from politics and increasingly cynical about the back-scratching relationship between politicians and big business Ferdinand Mount....
When political madness works. (2012)
"Kennedy, Roosevelt, Gandhi and Churchill all suffered various types of depression, bipolar syndrome or hyperactive manias. But instead of being a handicap, these “problems”, when kept under some control, helped...
Conference 2012: Dr Ricardo Blaug video clip – How power corrupts
Blaug, Ricardo. "Hubris is a serious and recurrent problem associated with the processes by which individual, group and organisations simultaneously create meaning. Dr Ricardo Blaug, Reader in Democracy and Political Theory,...
Chief execs should take psychological tests, says Equitable Life boss Wiscarson. (2012)
Equitable Life (showed) that the prime cause of corporate disasters is not complex derivatives or computer models gone haywire, but human frailty. Ruth Sunderland, Mail Online, 17 October 2012 For...
The Hubris Hypothesis: You can self-enhance, but you’d better not show it. (2012)
"...participants disliked individuals who communicated self-superiority beliefs explicitly. Such self-superiority beliefs may not create the same reaction when disguised as non-comparative positive self-claims or self-improvement claims. Vera Hoorens and...
BAE Systems chiefs failed the hubris test. (2012)
"The collapsed attempt of Dick Olver and Ian King, chairman and CEO of BAE Systems, to merge with EADS is “another high-scorer on the hubris index”, writes Ruth Sunderland in...
Internal and external approaches to controlling rogue behaviour. (2012)
“The conventional approach to eliminating rogue trading of imposing external controls is inherently flawed” Daniel Singer, Professor of Finance, Towson University, Maryland, USA M. Dewally Assistant Professor of Finance, Towson...