THE HUBRIS HUB

Hubristic leaders are powerful and successful individuals who become excessively confident and ambitious, they show contempt for the advice and criticism of others; as a result they often recklessly over-reach themselves and inflict damage - both financial and reputational - on themselves and their organizations.

At The Hubris Hub we aim to: (1) create and curate credible content on hubristic leadership in business management; (2) help organizations to understand the hubris hazard and mitigate the risks it poses.

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Excellent CEOs Recognise the Risk and Guard Against the Hubris Hazard

February 14, 2020

In their peerless role at the top of their organisations it's easy for CEOs to become over-confident and irrationally exuberant, but excellent CEOs re...

Is climate change a product of 'human hubris'?

January 1, 2020

Esquire magazine's Political Editor asks has human hubris allowed us to ignore the mounting signs that our very hospitable planet is be...

The Sun offers Boris Johnson a Classical wise warning about the hubris hazard

December 5, 2019

Quentin Letts, writing in The Sun, offers a Classical 'wise warning' about the hubris hazard to Boris Johnson: "the ancient Greeks had a word for it"....

Hubris and the 'big data backfire' at Cambridge Analytica

April 8, 2018

Chief Exec. of Cambridge Alexander Nix pushed the boundaries of big data to the point of backfire; according to one source quoted in the FT: “He [Nix]...

Under Armour, Under Pressure...Hubris?

February 25, 2018

Has Under Armour's runaway growth led to hubris?

Will Trump's overconfidence be his nemesis?

February 19, 2018

As Robert Mueller's investigation gets closer to the White House, Vanity Fair speculates on whether The President's overconfidence will lead him to sa...

Nemesis: An Occupational Hazard for Hubrists?

November 13, 2020

Boris Johnson’s special adviser, Dominic Cummings, faced accusations of hubris in the press in May this year over breaking lockdown restrictions. Six...

Looking on the bright side of hubris

June 9, 2020

Hubris is often depicted as indisputably a bad thing, however hubris also has a 'bright side' according to research published recently in the Journal...

Hubris, Coronavirus and the Lessons of History

March 4, 2020

Hubris causes us to over-estimate what can go right and under-estimate what can go wrong. In this article in Time magazine the medical historian Mark...

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