Posts tagged with: Academic articles
Bad apples in the barrel: personality disorders at work. (2014)
"Personality Disorders ... are in no way a matter of mental health but only of behaviour, and therefore subject to management oversight and intervention. Dr Michael Reddy, Chartered Clinical and Occupational...
Military operations: The harmful effects of Hubris influenced leaders. (2013)
"Alcibiades' Sicilian expedition, Bonaparte's Russian invasion and L. Paul Bremer's Iraqi government transitional leadership (all demonstrate) that hubris is an inherent character flaw and… an individual's access to power sets...
Avoiding the pitfalls of overconfidence while benefiting from the advantages of confidence. (2013)
"...provides recommendations on how managers can avoid the pitfalls of overconfidence while benefiting from the advantages of confidence. " Alex B. Van Zant, Ph.D. candidate in Business Administration at...
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...
Did anyone learn anything from the Equitable Life? Lessons and learning from financial crises. (Sept 2012)
"The focus of this report is what lessons might potentially have been drawn from Equitable’s crisis and what was learned, and how they related to the subsequent financial crisis of...
Reith Lecture: does the west’s decline reflect some deterioration in our institutions? (June 2012)
"Institutions … determine modern historical outcomes, more than natural forces like the weather, geography or even the incidence of disease.” Niall Ferguson, professor of history at Harvard, fellow of...
Power, responsibility and wisdom: exploring the issues at the core of ethical decision-making. (2012)
"At the core of all decision-making is the need to balance Power with Responsibility, Why is that so difficult? Power makes things happen, while our sense of Responsibility determines the trade-offs we make between...
Hierarchies, power inequalities, and organizational corruption. (2012)
“Individuals high in social dominance …are …less aware of corruption because of their feeling of entitlement to greater power … Valerie Rosenblatt, assistant professor, San Francisco State University Journal of...
The psychopath in the C suite: redefining the SOB. (2012)
Ring a bell? "His career was a moving disaster but through seductiveness, charm, and manipulativeness he'd got away with it. Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries INSEAD Working Paper No. 2012/119/EFE, November...