Posts tagged with: Hubris
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...
Neuroscience may help us understand financial bubbles. (2013)
"New research suggests market bubbles are driven by a biological impulse to predict others’ behaviour ... people are more likely to overvalue assets in a bubble ... Benedetto De Martino,...
Power corrupts but it also plays with your mind: Lloyd George, Chamberlain and Thatcher all suffered from ‘hubris syndrome’. (2013)
Owen, Lord David: "British Prime Ministers such as David Lloyd George, Chamberlain and Thatcher and US President George W Bush met the clinical diagnosis of Hubris Syndrome, first described in...
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...
Conference 2013: Prof. Cristoph Loch abstract. The evolutionary roots of hubris and strategies to watch yourself
Loch, Professor Christoph: "hubris is older than humanity. Therefore, it represents a temptation that everyone is prone to. But this does not imply inevitability, only a need to be watchful...
Military operations: The harmful effects of Hubris influenced leaders. (2013)
"Alcibiades' Sicilian expedition, Bonaparte's Russian invasion and L. Paul Bremer's Iraqi government transitional leadership (all demonstrate) that hubris is an inherent character flaw and… an individual's access to power sets...
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...
The path to power and how to use it. (2013)
"Broughton reviews the different approaches to power taken by some of today’s leading CEOs. Call it what you like, raw power, its acquisition and use, still count in business. Philip...
Changing the culture of American medicine – Start by removing hubris. (2013)
“As I grow older, the excessive pride and confidence of the medical establishment becomes more obvious. Why didn’t I see it before? John Mandrola, MD Dr John M (personal blog),...