HUBRIS RESOURCES

Find out more about hubris by following the links to the selection of books and articles below.

Scroll to the bottom for links to video/audio resources and for examples of hubris in business.

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BOOKS

• Sadler-Smith, E.  (2019).  Hubristic Leadership.  London: SAGE

• Garrard, P. (Ed.) (2018) The Leadership Hubris Epidemic. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan

• Owen, D. (2018). Hubris: The road to Donald Trump York: Methuen

• Robinson, G., & Garrard, P. (Eds.). (2016). The Intoxication of Power: Interdisciplinary Insights.  Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan

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ARTICLES

(Available from: publisher, open access, or by emailing the lead author)

• Sadler-Smith, E., & Cojuharenco, I. (2021). Business schools and hubris: Cause or cure? Academy of Management Learning & Education, 20(2), 270-289 or via Open access.

• Sadler-Smith, E., & Akstinaite, V. (2021). Human hubris, anthropogenic climate change, and an environmental ethic of humility. Organization & Environment (in press) or via Open access.

• Sadler-Smith, E., & Tourish, D. (2021). Hubris in management. In Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Business and Management.

• Akstinaite, V., Garrard, P., & Sadler‐Smith, E. (2021). Identifying linguistic markers of CEO hubris: a machine learning approach. British Journal of Management (in press) or via Open access.

• Akstinaite, V., Robinson, G., & Sadler-Smith, E. (2020). Linguistic markers of CEO hubris. Journal of Business Ethics, 167(4), 687-705 or via Open access.

• Asad, S., & Sadler-Smith, E. (2020). Differentiating leader hubris and narcissism on the basis of power. Leadership, 16(1), 39-61 or via Open access.

• Robinson, G.  (2019). Deja-vu: Whose hubris?

• Sadler-Smith, E., Robinson, G., Akstinaite, V., Wray, TCD. (2018). Hubristic leadership: Understanding the hazard and mitigating the risk. Organizational Dynamics, 48(2), 8-18, or via Open access. 

• Sadler-Smith, E., Akstinaite, V., Robinson, G., & Wray, TCD.  (2017). Hubristic leadership: A review.  Leadership or via Open access.

• Claxton, G., Owen, D., & Sadler-Smith, E. (2015). Hubris in leadership: A peril of unbridled intuition? Leadership, 11(1): 57-78 or via Open access.

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VIDEO AND AUDIO

Historian Bettany Hughes discusses hubris across the ages

Lord Owen gives a succinct summary of Hubris Syndrome

Dr Nassir Ghaemi talks to CNN's Michael Smerconish - hubris and Trump's fitness for high office

Prof Ian Robertson offers insights on the biology and neuropsychology of power

Prof Peter Garrard on the link between hubris and the words we use

Prof Douglas Cairns discusses the classical origins of hubris (hybris)

Professor Jane Hendy on the tipping point of hubris

Professor Phil Ferbach on hubris and overconfidence in investing

Dr Farrah Jarral offers an anthropological perspective on hubris, power and gender

Dr Atul Gawande’s 2014 Reith Lecture on the problem of hubris in medicine

Professor Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ Nabel of Harvard Medical School on why being humble matters

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WEB SITES

http://www.daedalustrust.com/  Committed to raising hubris awareness​