“So here’s the thing. Flight, taxes, death – they’re all connected to this event” explains the cheery video for the National Funeral Directors Association Leadership Conference 2021. The bad news is that the deadline to attend the event has now expired. The good news is that there’s still time to book for the 2022 event […]
Tag: leadership
“Big Men” in leadership roles [new study]
How does body weight and size affect the perceived persuasiveness of ‘leaders’ (when the ‘leader’ is a man) ? This question has recently been examined by three professors from the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, US. Professor Kevin Kniffin and Professor Vicki Bogan, along with faculty colleague Professor David Just (also now at […]
Comparing ‘The Leadership Hubris Epidemic’ and Frontotemporal Dementia
What comparisons might be drawn, if any, between the grotesquely exaggerated, often self-destructive personality traits caused by damage to frontal brain regions and the behaviour of prominent characters in the world of business and politics who are suffering from ‘The Hubris Syndrome’? Details are provided in Chapter 1 of the 2107 book ‘The Leadership Hubris Epidemic’ […]
Dirty Hands Make Dirty Leaders? (study)
Florien Cramwinckel Msc (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) researches how people respond to the moral behavior of others. As part of this remit, an experiment was devised in which 78 participants demonstrated how dirtiness versus cleanliness might influence moral behavior in leader–subordinate relationships :- “They were asked touch, smell, and evaluate a dirty (fake poop) or […]