Blogs/speeches

“As I grow older, the excessive pride and confidence of the medical establishment becomes more obvious. Why didn’t I see it before?  John Mandrola, MD Dr John M (personal blog),...

"Power and success are two of the biggest brain-changing drugs known to mankind and no human being’s brain can survive unchanged such large infusions of these two drugs. Erdoğan’s response...

"When the founder of Intel was asked how it felt being called the “Father of Silicon Valley” he responded, “It makes me a little proud and a little humble.” There is...

CEOs should serve as stewards of their companies, developing profitable, sustainable, and trusted businesses. Hans-Paul Burkner, Chairman, Boston Consulting Group bcg.perspectives 6 June 2013. “Massive corporate fraud, the dot-com bubble,...

"The more successful he became, the bigger the egos he had to deal with among his millionaire players. Success, like power, is a strong drug which inflates egos and can...

“3% of trainee managers in this survey scored in the psychopath range - well above the 1% incidence in the general population.”   Victor Lipman ‘Mind of the Manager’ blog...

"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....

"Whether we call hubris a disease is for me a pragmatic question. Could we prevent, screen for, or treat hubris? I doubt it, so let’s not call it a disease....

"Morsi has to realize for the sake of Egypt’s future that his own brain function is being distorted by the very measures he is introducing to impose “order” on the...

"It is a law of human nature," David Brooks writes, "that the more men you concentrate in one happy pack, the more each will come to resemble Donald Trump.  ...