Papers

It’s all about me: narcissistic chief executive officers and their effects on company strategy and performance. (2007)
"Narcissistic CEOs favor bold actions …, resulting in big wins or big losses, but their firms' performance is generally no better or worse than non-narcissistic CEOs’ firms. Arijit Chatterjee and...
Written by: Chatterjee, Arijit & Hambricj, Donald C.
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Power, optimism and risk-taking. (2006)
"..investigated the hypotheses that the sense of power increases optimism in perceiving risks and leads to more risky behaviour. ...individuals with a higher generalized sense of power were more optimistic...
Written by: Anderson and Galinsky.
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Power and perspectives not taken. (2006)
"Experiencing power seems to almost instantly impair an individual's ability to appreciate the perspectives of others. ..power leads individuals to anchor too heavily on their own vantage point, insufficiently adjusting...
Written by: Galinsky, Magee, Inese and Gruenfeld.
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The neuroscience of leadership. (2006)
"It is now clear that human behavior in the workplace doesn't work the way many executives think it does. That in turn helps explain why many leadership efforts and organizational...
Written by: Rock, David & Schwartz, Jeffrey.
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Personality and foreign policy: Tony Blair’s Iraq decisions. (2006)
"..from his responses to foreign policy questions in the House of Commons the author finds Blair has a high belief in his ability to control events, a low conceptual complexity, and...
Written by: Dyson, Stephen Benedict.
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CEO overconfidence and corporate investment. (2005)
"..studied how hubris affects CEOs' corporate investment decisions ... CEOs tend to think that under their glorious leadership the stock prices will keep going up, so they keep holding on to...
Written by: Malmendier and Tate.
Read moreLeadership and the psychology of power. (2005)
“…power is disinhibiting… to understand leadership behaviour it is important to consider the psychological effects of power on the leader” Joe C. Magee, Deborah. H. Gruenfeld; Stanford University Dacher J....
Written by: Magee, J. C., Gruenfeld, D. H., Keltner, D., & Galinsky, A. D.
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Assessing leadership style: Trait analysis. (2005)
"Seven traits have been found to be particularly useful in assessing leadership style: 1 - the belief that one can influence or control what happens. 2 - the need for...
Written by: Hermann, Margaret C.
Read moreUnbounded irrationality: Risk and organizational narcissism at Long Term Capital Management. (2003)
“..focuses on the near collapse of the highly prestigious hedge-fund Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) in September 1998, causing widespread fears (of a) global financial meltdown. Prof Mark Stein,...
Written by: Stein, Mark.
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From power to action. (2003)
"...investigated the hypothesis that power increases an action orientation in the power holder, even in contexts where power is not directly experienced. Galinsky, A. D., Northwestern University Gruenfeld, D.H....
Written by: Galinsky, Gruenfeld and Magee.
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