Posts tagged with: Tourish

"We cannot rely on the wisdom of a solitary genius surrounded by a multitude of marvelling minions." Dennis Tourish, Professor of Leadership and Organisation studies at the University of Sussex...

Business practitioners made up the majority of attendees at the Surrey Business School’s oversubscribed 20 May ‘Hubris in Business and Management’ symposium, reflecting growing ‘real world’ interest in the issue....

"Hubris can be described as over-confidence on steroids." Our latest in an occasional series of guest blogs comes from Professor Dennis Tourish. “A test of leadership" discusses the importance of listening to opposing views...

“…(teaching) heroic models of leadership has legitimised the over-concentration of power, encouraged hubris rather than humility … and played a significant part in business scandals.” David Collinson, Lancaster University, and...

"There are problems with the way leadership is approached and theorised about…. There is an almost over-fixation with leadership and the idea that it is the single most important thing...

“..confronts the orthodoxy that transformational leadership is a ‘good thing’ by illustrating how it can encourage narcissism, megalomania and poor decision-making at great expense to organizations   Dennis Tourish, Professor...