Posts tagged with: Hubris
Caesar’s murder and the fatal addiction of power: Ancient Rome offers today’s leaders a chilling lesson in the dangers of hubris. (2015)
"..modern politics is less violent than that of ancient Rome but the basic principles of power and ambition are universal and unvarying… Robert Harris, best-selling thriller writer Daily Mail /...
Boards and investors have let the mining sector dig itself into a hole. (2015)
“Two factors have driven dismal investors' outcomes: first, the hubris of many mergers at the peak of the boom; second, the excessive nature of investment to increase output as financial discipline went...
Guest blog: Hubris Syndrome – Metrics and Meaning. (2015)
Reflecting on the Hubris in Business and Management symposium hosted by Eugene Sadler-Smith and the Surrey Business School at the University of Surrey on 20 May 2015, the author Marc Atherton...
Kids Company – A real life Greek tragedy? (2015)
"Without humility, the mighty fall hard, and the collateral damage is something to behold." Matt Nixon, management consultant and Associate of Ashridge Business School. Another in an occasional series of...
The dark side of leadership: Towards a mid‐range theory of hubris and greed in entrepreneurial contexts. (2015)
“Specifically, we examine the potential for, and the outcomes of, the display of greed and hubris in different entrepreneurial contexts. Katalin Takacs Haynes, University of Delaware; Michael A. Hitt, Texas...
Tipping point: Managers’ self-interest, greed, and altruism. (2015)
".. managerial hubris ... differs from self-confidence. "Hubris is an extreme manifestation of confidence, characterized by preoccupation with fantasies of success and power, excessive feelings of self-importance, as well as arrogance.” Katalin...
Humility, hubris and the curse of self-deception. (2015)
"What ultimately determines an organisation’s fate is whether key people remain open to seeing beyond the familiar, so what they might become in the future is not stifled by what...
Hopes & hubris: ‘Latest Advances in Psychiatry (LAP)’ Symposium report. 2015
“..while hubris may have played a part in the downfall of huge international companies … there has been little research into its causes, let alone potential treatment.” Steve Titmarsh, Progress...
The trouble with being too confident. (2015)
“Too much self-confidence means you start missing the warning signs that you might be wrong … because, to you, the signs don’t even exist. Sydney Finkelstein ‘Syd weighs in’, BBC Worldwide...
The hubris of the economists laid bare: a cautionary tale about quirky overconfidence. 2015
"Freakonomics …. reflected a wider overconfidence in economics. Like the discipline it emerged from, Freakonomics would have benefited from being humbler and rather more open to suggestions. The Guardian Editorial,...