Posts tagged with: Lord David Owen
Hubris syndrome: an acquired personality disorder? A study of US Presidents and UK Prime Ministers over the last 100 years. (May 2009)
"Qualities often associated with successful leadership can also be marked by impetuosity, a refusal to listen to or take advice and a particular form of incompetence when impulsivity, recklessness and frequent...
In Sickness and in Power: Illness in Heads of Government During the Last 100 Years. (2008)
"A unique study of illness in heads of government between 1901 and 2007, and how it affects the process of government and decision-making, leading to acts of folly, in the sense of...
Hubris and Nemesis in Heads of Government. (2006)
“Holy wars breed arrogance, ignite hubris and are followed all too often by nemesis..... (Bush and Blair were) Bparticularly susceptible to being swept up with the intoxication of power. Lord David Owen,...