Would you say that having a big mouth might be a valid cue to leadership selection and success? A new (March 2016) study in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology authored by Dr. Daniel E. Re and Professor Nicholas O. Rule of the Social Perception and Cognition Lab, University of Toronto, Canada, suggests that the […]
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Good for interpretation: Social-do-gooding brags by certain CEOs
This week’s Make-of-This-What-You-Will Press Release comes from the University of California, Riverside. It says, in part: This dynamic – espousing good actions but then taking steps in the opposite direction – is surprisingly common among CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, researchers have found in a just published paper. They found firms that engaged in prior socially […]
The Handwriting is on Wall Street: CEO Scribbling Significance?
Business analysts struggle to find reliable ways to make any sense of the great mystery: Which firms will thrive, and which wither? This new study, perhaps as reliable as most business indicators, looks at the size of the chief executive’s handwriting: “Narcissism is a Bad Sign: CEO Signature Size, Investment, and Performance,” Charles Ham, Nicholas […]
Voice pitch ==> CEO remuneration (correction: up is down)
Our eagle-eyed readers my have spotted a curiosity in the abstract for a forthcoming paper in Evolution & Human Behavior. ‘Voice pitch and the labor market success of male chief executive officers’ Specifically, the sentence : “For the median CEO of the median sample firm, an interquartile increase in voice pitch (22.1Hz) is associated with […]