Posts tagged with: Thatcher
Hubris drove foreign policy mistake “far worse than Suez”. (2014) Lord David Owen interview
"If the Iraq war is the nexus for a Sunni-Shiite war - which might be the history of the next 100 years - it’s far worse than Suez as a foreign policy...
Dangerous link between power and hubris in politics. (2013)
"There is a dark side to power, which derives from its mind-changing effects on the people who hold it. The group looked for words, phrases and patterns of language use that...
Linguistic biomarkers of Hubris syndrome. (2013)
"The researchers ..examined.. the speeches of two UK Prime Ministers said to meet criteria for hubris syndrome (Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair) and one (John Major) who did not. ...
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...
Women, Power and Margaret Thatcher. (April 2013)
"Margaret Thatcher showed that biology had not handicapped women from achieving dominance in the human tribe," writes Professor Ian Robertson, holder of the Chair in Psyhcology at Trinity College Dublin....