Posts tagged with: Blair
Chilcot’s lessons. (2016)
"The Chilcot report (into the war in Iraq) is … also a study into how decision-making can go wrong. Here are nine lessons (from Chilcot) for investors. Chris Dillow. Investor...
What decision makers can learn from Blair’s failures. (2016)
"Iraq war shows how an inner circle that becomes a cabal will confirm what CEOs think they know." Andrew Hill. ft.com 11 July 2016. It should come as no surprise...
The Chilcot Report: Iraq’s grim lessons. (2016)
Then UK prime minister Tony Blair, "is not a liar and a war criminal (as many contend), but a man steered by a fatal combination of hubris, wishful thinking and...
Creon’s Fatal Flaw. (2014)
The abject failure of U.K. Prime Minister Blair and U.S. President Bush to anticipate the consequences of the 2003 Iraq war and their belief that an invading force would be...
Blair “is a man with a messiah complex … time in office made him mad”. (2014)
Tony Blair is a narcissist with a messiah complex who is passionate about making money and lives a ‘strange life’ among the super-rich, according to a former close friend. ...
Hubris drove foreign policy mistake “far worse than Suez”. (2014) Lord David Owen interview
"If the Iraq war is the nexus for a Sunni-Shiite war - which might be the history of the next 100 years - it’s far worse than Suez as a foreign policy...
Dangerous link between power and hubris in politics. (2013)
"There is a dark side to power, which derives from its mind-changing effects on the people who hold it. The group looked for words, phrases and patterns of language use that...
Linguistic biomarkers of Hubris syndrome. (2013)
"The researchers ..examined.. the speeches of two UK Prime Ministers said to meet criteria for hubris syndrome (Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair) and one (John Major) who did not. ...
Science can help to spot symptoms of executive hubris. (Financial Times, 2013)
Tett, Gillian. "How can an investor tell if a bank is heading for danger? Analysts have proposed all manner of financial measures. But why not analyse the words of the...
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....