Posts tagged with: Lord David Owen
Power can corrupt leaders. Compassion can save them. (2018)
"...Power impairs our mirror-neurological activity — the neurological function that indicates the ability to understand and associate with others." Hougaard, R., Carter, J. and Chester, L. Harvard Business Review, 15...
The danger of runaway leadership. (2017)
"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...
Hubris syndrome. (2017) “…an urgent problem for business leaders, which they show few signs of recognising.”
"Growing evidence shows that positions of power in politics and business may corrupt the ability of those in them to behave rationally. It’s time for risk managers to take heed."...
Does power make you mad? (BBC radio programme: 2015)
Owen Bennett Jones speaks with a distinguished group of journalists, academics, psychologists, diplomats and politicians (including Lord David Owen, founder of the Daedalus Trust) to discuss the merits and abuses...
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...
Conference papers collected – The Intoxication of Power: Interdisciplinary insights. (2015)
Assembled from papers presented to the two first Daedalus Trust conferences, this new book offers perspectives on leadership hubris from business, neuroscience, psychology and other disciplines. Edited by Peter Garrard...
Hubris Syndrome: Diminished empathy and unbridled intuition. (2015)
"I have become increasingly interested in two interlocking features that seem to be associated with Hubris Syndrome, namely diminished empathy and unbridled intuition. Speech by the Rt Hon Lord...
Creon’s Fatal Flaw. (2014)
The abject failure of U.K. Prime Minister Blair and U.S. President Bush to anticipate the consequences of the 2003 Iraq war and their belief that an invading force would be...
Conference 2014 “Leadership: stress and hubris” – Monday 17 November
A fascinating lineup of speakers is programmed for our next conference. Andy Haldane, Chief Economist of the Bank of England has now been confirmed to open the day with a keynote address....
Research Café 2014: Lord David Owen – ‘binding’ leaders
"... I will deal with, ‘Structures and processes that might bind, shackle and brake democratic leaders without inhibiting their ability to give of their best’. ‘Binding’ is very important … One...