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How leaders and their teams can stop executive hubris (2017)
"...One of the chief characteristics of hubris is blindness — the inability to see it in oneself, much less admit it and do something about it." Jonathan Mackey, managing partner in...
Written by: Jonathan Mackey, Sharon Toye
Read more“See You in Court”: How CEO narcissism increases firms’ vulnerability to lawsuits (2017)
"...In spite of the claim that there is both a “bright side” and a “dark side” to narcissistic leadership, overall, there is little evidence that firms with narcissistic CEOs perform...
Written by: Charles A. O'Reilly, Bernadette Doerr, Jennifer A. Chatman
Read more‘It was like a bereavement’: life after leaving a big job (2017)
"...the hardest lesson may not be dealing with the ignobility conferred by your newfound lack of status, the really tough bit is dealing with your newfound sense of self." Melissa...
Written by: Melissa Viney
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Using tweets to decrypt the personality of Donald Trump and other powerful people (2017)
"In the case of President Trump, researchers conclude he is an 'emotionally unstable innovator'." Queensland University of Technology EurekAlert 27 July 2017 Image:Skidmore "An international research team, led by [Queensland...
Written by: Queensland University of Technology
Read moreCould your personality derail your career? (2017)
"Research over decades suggests that it’s very difficult to change core aspects of your personality after age 30. But you can—through self-awareness, appropriate goal setting, and persistence..." Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, CEO...
Written by: Daedalus admin
Read morePutting an end to leaders’ self-serving behavior (2017)
"...when there’s ambiguity in the context, people convince themselves that they deserve more resources than others, a form of motivated reasoning that in turn facilitate[s] their self-serving behavior." Morela Hernandez, associate...
Written by: Hernandez, M.
Read moreSex, power, and the systems that enable men like Harvey Weinstein (2017)
"The challenge...is to change social systems in which the abuses of power arise and continue unchecked." Dacher Keltner, professor of psychology at University of California, Berkeley. Harvard Business Review, October 13, 2017 "...my research into...
Written by: Keltner, D.
Read moreWe should stop mistaking confidence for anything but self-belief. (2017)
"...we should all learn to be more sceptical of what confidence actually brings. It's not competence. It's not effectiveness." Julia Baird, journalist and author Sydney Morning Herald ,19 May 2017....
Written by: Baird, J.
Read moreThe rise of bullying bosses and incivility in the workplace. (2017)
“…there is compelling evidence that both incivility and abusive bosses are flourishing in our organizations… (we must ask) what kind of leaders we really want, and (which) are best for...
Written by: Williams, R.
Read moreThe psychological structure of humility. (2016)
“..humility is uniformly operationalized as a positive, socially desirable construct… (however) we found humility takes two distinct forms, ‘appreciative’ and ‘self-abasing’…” Aaron C. Weidman, University of British Columbia; Joey T Cheng, University...
Written by: Weidman, A. C., Cheng, J. T., & Tracy, J. L
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