Posts tagged with: Books
Shredded. Inside RBS, the bank that broke Britain. (2014)
“ ..lifts the lid on the catastrophic mistakes that led RBS to the brink of collapse, scrutinizing the role played by RBS’s directors who failed to check Goodwin’s hubris, colleagues…...
The leadership shadow: How to recognise and avoid derailment, hubris and overdrive. (2014)
“Leaders can do enormous harm if they do not sustain an awareness of the dangerous psychological states it is so easy to be sucked into as a leader Erik...
The management shift: How to harness the power of people and transform your organization for sustainable success. (2014)
“…offers managers a practical and systemic approach to diagnose leadership issues in their organisation, then provides an implementation process…” Professor Vlatka Hlupic, University of Westminster; also London Business School and...
The Science of Leadership: Lessons from research for organizational leaders. (2014)
"Takes a middle ground between the academic and practitioner approaches to leadership by outlining practical guidelines that are evidence-based." Julian Barling PhD, Queen’s School of Business, Canada. Oxford University Press, 6 March...
The Oxford Handbook of leadership and organizations. (2014)
"...a collection of comprehensive, state-of-the-science reviews and perspectives on the most pressing historical and contemporary leadership issues." David V. Day (Ed.) Oxford University Press. From the publisher’s website: Addresses various...
Morality, competition, and the firm: the market failures approach to business ethics. (2014)
“an exciting thesis... to derive business ethics from the pursuit of market efficiency, rather from everyday morality.” Joseph Heath, Professor in the Department of Philosophy as well as the School...
The myth of the strong leader: political leadership in the modern age. (2014)
"Brown warns of the dangers of leaders who, whether in a democracy or a tyranny, seek to dominate policy and all those around them. The reality or the delusion of unchallenged...
The psychology of power: temptation at the top. (2014)
"scrutinizes some of the best-known politicians… (and finds) all gave in to a slightly amended version of the seven temptations or mortal sins.." Jaap van Ginneken, psychologist and former Associate...
Hubris: How HBOS wrecked the best bank in Britain. (2013)
..."the brilliant men who ran the company ignored the simple banking rules that their predecessors learned the hard way three centuries before.." Ray Perman: former journalist (Financial Times,...
The dark side of transformational leadership: A critical perspective. (2013)
“..confronts the orthodoxy that transformational leadership is a ‘good thing’ by illustrating how it can encourage narcissism, megalomania and poor decision-making at great expense to organizations Dennis Tourish, Professor...