Posts tagged with: CEOs and governance
Research Café 2014: Ricardo Blaug introduction – Leadership, democracy and hubris
"The theme today is the nature of leadership….Lord Owen has made a very interesting remark in his book The Hubris Syndrome that one possible ‘treatment’ for hubris may in fact be...
The fallout of CEO narcissism. (2014)
"Highly narcissistic CEOs may tend to do the opposite of what other directors have experienced to demonstrate their superiority. The researchers analysed the relationship between narcissism Guoli Chen, INSEAD Assistant Professor...
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...
Performance for pay? The relation between CEO incentive compensation and future stock price performance. (2014)
“CEO pay is negatively related to future stock returns…driven by… overconfidence that leads to losses from over investment and value-destroying M&A. Michael J. Cooper, University of Utah; Huseyin Gulen, Purdue...
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...
The case for CEO term limits. (2013)
"...how does a nation or company avoid the dangers of tone-deaf leaders? It's as simple as making finite the time that leaders spend close to power's flame. In other words:...
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...
Strategic leadership: how to avoid the most common error leaders make. (2013).
"Denial, ego and hubris are all parts of human nature. They are like gravity. We don’t defeat them. To move forward we must actively resist them every day." Eric...
Conference 2013 Martin Taylor: pressures on senior businessmen
Taylor, Martin, “The love of power does more damage than the love of money ... of all the avenues .. a teenage daughter is the most successful puncturer of a CEO’s...