Posts tagged with: CEOs and governance
Conference 2013: Clayton and Wilkins abstract. A fish out of water and temporal myopia
Clayton & Wilkins. "There is a bit of Hubris in everyone. One might wonder why that is? It can be argued that we place too much importance on the self...
Conference 2013: Kets de Vries abstract. Hubris
"..in the senior positions of organisations, hubris can become a contagious disease. Leaders become easily intoxicated by its siren’s call. Professor Manfred F R Kets de Vries The moment you...
The hubris hypothesis of corporate social irresponsibility: evidence from the Parmalat case. (2013)
"the personality and values of (the CEO) contribute to explaining the development of Parmalat, the manifestation of its weaknesses and why the firm … fell into the hubris trap of its...
Fighting corporate hubris: The four steps of the perpetuity principle. (2013)
CEOs should serve as stewards of their companies, developing profitable, sustainable, and trusted businesses. Hans-Paul Burkner, Chairman, Boston Consulting Group bcg.perspectives 6 June 2013. “Massive corporate fraud, the dot-com bubble,...
Executive overconfidence and the slippery slope to financial misreporting. (2012)
"Overconfident executives are more likely to exhibit an optimistic bias and thus are more likely to start down a slippery slope of growing intentional misstatements. Schrand, C.M., University of...
The H Factor: A behavioral explanation of leadership failures in the 2007-2009 financial system meltdown. (2012)
"the current problems with the financial system and our economy have many of their roots in ... words that begin with the letter H - hubris, hypocrisy, hostility, honour, humility, and...
Conference 2012: Dr Ricardo Blaug video clip – How power corrupts
Blaug, Ricardo. "Hubris is a serious and recurrent problem associated with the processes by which individual, group and organisations simultaneously create meaning. Dr Ricardo Blaug, Reader in Democracy and Political Theory,...
Chief execs should take psychological tests, says Equitable Life boss Wiscarson. (2012)
Equitable Life (showed) that the prime cause of corporate disasters is not complex derivatives or computer models gone haywire, but human frailty. Ruth Sunderland, Mail Online, 17 October 2012 For...
BAE Systems chiefs failed the hubris test. (2012)
"The collapsed attempt of Dick Olver and Ian King, chairman and CEO of BAE Systems, to merge with EADS is “another high-scorer on the hubris index”, writes Ruth Sunderland in...
Lord Owen: Hubris Syndrome and the need for research. (2012)
Further background to Hubris Syndrome and the Daedalus Trust, and the need for more research in the area. "We’ve now got acquired personality disorders. The question is can it affect...