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Why great success can bring out the worst parts of our personalities (2018)
"The more power and influence you have, the less interested you will be in pleasing other people and in keeping your dark side in check." Lovric D., Principal at Incandescent, and...
Written by: Darko Lovric and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Read more‘Recklessness, hubris and greed’ – Carillion slammed by MPs (2018)
"[Board members]...presented themselves as “self-pitying victims of a maelstrom of coincidental and unforeseeable mishaps”" Rob Davies, business reporter, Guardian. Guardian, 16 May 2018 Image: The Paradise Birmingham site after the collapse...
Written by: Rob Davies
Read moreFresh blood: why everyone fell for Theranos (2018)
Charged with "massive fraud", Elizabeth Holmes has plummeted from the pedestal she built for herself Andrew Hill, The Financial Times. Opinion, 19 March 2018 Image: Elizabeth Holmes, 2014. Credit: Max Morse,...
Written by: Andrew Hill
Read morePutin: The New Tsar
Aired recently on BBC 2, Putin: The New Tsar tracks the extraordinary rise of an ex-KGB colonel to Boris Yeltsin's successor. The documentary contains commentary throughout by Professor Ian Robertson, Founding...
Written by: BBC 2
Read morePower can corrupt leaders. Compassion can save them. (2018)
"...Power impairs our mirror-neurological activity — the neurological function that indicates the ability to understand and associate with others." Hougaard, R., Carter, J. and Chester, L. Harvard Business Review, 15...
Written by: Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter, Louise Chester
Read moreWhat makes some men sexual harassers? Science tries to explain the creeps of the world (2017)
"...For many men who score high on the harassment scale," the ideas of power and sex "...are often intertwined." Wan, W. National Correspondent, US. The Washington Post, 22 December 2017...
Written by: William Wan
Read moreThe strategic decisions that caused Nokia’s failure (2017)
...Success breeds conservatism and hubris which, over time, results in a decline of the strategy processes leading to poor strategic decisions. Doz, Y. INSEAD Emeritus Professor of Strategic Management Knowledge, 23...
Written by: Yves Doz
Read moreCarillion. What a mess.
Board hubris ran high while hedge funds scented blood, shorting the stock. Bailey, D. Professor of Industrial Strategy, Aston Business School Birmingham Post, 18 January 2018 Image: Wikimedia Commons "Carillion's demise...
Written by: Professor David Bailey
Read moreWhen Founders Go Too Far (2017)
"Given the extraordinary power imbalance that’s now the norm in Silicon Valley boardrooms, it should be no surprise that many founder-CEOs are behaving badly. In fact, the real surprise may...
Written by: Steve Blank
Read moreAre you a toxic boss? If your team won’t tell you, neuroscience will (2017)
"Absolute power does, in fact, corrupt absolutely." Hogshead, S. Founder & CEO 'How to Fascinate' Inc., November 17, 2017 Image: Pexels "Confidence can be perceived as aggression by employees. Confident...
Written by: Sally Hogshead
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