Posts tagged with: CEO
Power corrupts, but control does not: what stands behind the effects of holding high positions (2018)
New research aims to disentangle the relationships between holding high positions, power over others, personal control, and antisocial tendencies. Cislak, A., Cichocka, A., Wojcik, A. D., & Frankowska, N. Personality and...
Fresh blood: why everyone fell for Theranos (2018)
Charged with "massive fraud", Elizabeth Holmes has plummeted from the pedestal she built for herself Andrew Hill, The Financial Times. Opinion, 19 March 2018 Image: Elizabeth Holmes, 2014. Credit: Max Morse,...
Memo to the CEO: are you the source of workplace dysfunction? (2017)
"The risks of turning insensitive and unkind to others increase as you become more senior." Sutton, R. Professor of Management science at Stanford Engineering School McKinsey Quarterly, September 2017. Artwork: Pixabay...
Power can corrupt leaders. Compassion can save them. (2018)
"...Power impairs our mirror-neurological activity — the neurological function that indicates the ability to understand and associate with others." Hougaard, R., Carter, J. and Chester, L. Harvard Business Review, 15...
How leaders and their teams can stop executive hubris (2017)
"...One of the chief characteristics of hubris is blindness — the inability to see it in oneself, much less admit it and do something about it." Jonathan Mackey, managing partner in...
“See You in Court”: How CEO narcissism increases firms’ vulnerability to lawsuits (2017)
"...In spite of the claim that there is both a “bright side” and a “dark side” to narcissistic leadership, overall, there is little evidence that firms with narcissistic CEOs perform...
Using tweets to decrypt the personality of Donald Trump and other powerful people (2017)
"In the case of President Trump, researchers conclude he is an 'emotionally unstable innovator'." Queensland University of Technology EurekAlert 27 July 2017 Image:Skidmore "An international research team, led by [Queensland...