Posts tagged with: Tett
Five stars and falling stars. (2016)
“Hubris has a nasty habit of breeding disaster, particularly when combined with oodles of cheap debt.” Gillian Tett, Ft.com > FT Magazine, 8 April 2016 “...in 1990 the Japanese bubble...
The Silo Effect: The peril of expertise and the promise of breaking down barriers. (2015)
“Organisational silos are bad enough. Even more damaging are silos of the mind - the unexamined assumptions, conventional categorisations and ingrained thought patterns underpinning everyday decision-making. Gillian Tett, senior Financial...
Wall Street’s finest head for the Silicon Valley. 2015
"As its allure and self-confidence swells, Silicon Valley might repeat some of the political and social mistakes that created the Wall Street boom and bust. Gillian Tett FT.com, 26 March...
Hubris and the City. (2014) Should investors seek ways to identify hubris?
“..the problem (of hubris) seems to be so widespread that it raises a bigger question: namely, should investors in funds (or directors of financial institutions) now be looking for a...
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...
How bankers believed their own hype. (2013)
“..groupthink and wishful thinking pose the biggest risks in finance, not deliberate malevolence. Investors - and bankers - should read this Princeton research, and stand warned. Gillian Tett ft.com, 22...
Conference 2012: programme, abstracts and bios
Materials from our conference 'The intoxication of power: From neurosciences to hubris in healthcare and public life' are now available. The event, held on 9 October 2012, was organised by the Daedalus Trust in...
Conference 2012 notes: Session 1
This set features notes from the following presentations to session 1 (From power to hubris) of our conference 'The Intoxication of power: From neurosciences to hubris in healthcare and public...
When political madness works. (2012)
"Kennedy, Roosevelt, Gandhi and Churchill all suffered various types of depression, bipolar syndrome or hyperactive manias. But instead of being a handicap, these “problems”, when kept under some control, helped...
Conference 2012: Gillian Tett – Puppetmasters or umpires: the perils of modern bank regulation
The rules to which central bankers worked enabled them to be very confident (Alan Greenspan brushed his critics away) and to ignore the wider context (of system stability) Ms...