Posts tagged with: Hubris

“Insider traders - mostly male - do it for the money, (but are also) influenced by hubris, feelings of conquest, playing seduction games and adrenaline highs.” Andrew Snyder, family therapist, prison...

"Pride ... seems to be quite functional and exist to encourage people to engage in socially valued behaviours more likely to bind people together than to separate and divide." Neil...

It is easy to blame failed leaders of having suffered from hubris; but …their ‘crime’ is not bringing about the failure … but of not winning the goals we appointed...

“The lead piping came for the Tories, first on election night and, since then, in their slow, shocked and wholly inadequate reaction to the catastrophe at Grenfell Tower." The Guardian (UK)...

Professor Douglas Cairns, University of Edinburgh,  discusses the classical definition of Hubris. He describes how it was defined by the great classical thinkers, in relation to temperament and law, and...

Sir Anthony Seldon, University of Buckingham Vice-Chancellor, addresses five topics: Hubris as it has affected recent UK Prime Ministers, from Margaret Thatcher to David Cameron (“four out of the five...

"… Wall Street loves MBAs' analytical detachment, but that separation from real-world consequences is the very source of the financial world’s regularly occurring convulsions." Duff McDonald 3 June 2017, The...

"Hubristic individuals are a threat to governance in all institutions." Lord David Owen Governance + Compliance, the online magazine of ICSA: The Governance Institute (UK), 16 May 2017 “For all...

"Amongst the most memorable of the many occasions I have attended RSM.” That’s just one of the enthusiastic comments we’ve received about the ‘Power, Gender and Hubris’ conference we co-organised...

Are success and arrogance risks to leadership? Do women and men react differently when they're in positions of power? These topical issues will be explored in depth at the Power, Gender and...