Eugene Sadler Smith is a Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the Surrey Business School. His research interests include hubris (in leadership, business, and politics) and intuition (in decision-making and creativity). On each topic, I recorded an interview with him for the Leadership 2.0 podcast.
This episode is dedicated to the topic of hubris. During our conversation, we discussed the following topics:
00:00 Introduction
00:30 The meaning of hubris
02:49 Examples of hubristic leaders in politics and business
08:43 The origins of hubris: nature and/or nurture?
12:44 Do we co-create hubristic leaders?
18:04 Recognizing hubristic leaders by the language they use
25.53 How can teams become hubristic
30:49 Eugene's new book: 'The Hubris Hazard'
35:38 The role of HR and Leadership Development professionals
37:45 Does hubris also have a bright side?
About the work of Eugene Sadler-Smith:
Eugene Sadler Smith published over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and his research has featured on BBC Radio 4, BBC Local Radio, Sky TV, The Insight Channel, The Times, The Guardian, and others.
Eugene worked on research and executive education projects with, amongst others, Tesco, Mind Gym, ICSA, CIPD, Met Police, Surrey Police, Welsh Government, Forbes, Home Office and the Scottish Government.
He has written a number of books: Learning and Development for Managers (Blackwell, 2006); Inside Intuition (Routledge, 2008); The Intuitive Mind (John Wiley and Sons, 2010, translated into Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Russian); Hubristic Leadership (with a Foreword by Lord David Owen, SAGE, 2018); Human Resource Development: From Theory into Practice (SAGE, 2022), and ‘Intuition in Business’ (Oxford University Press in 2023).
In the next coming months two new books by his hand will be published ‘The Hubris Hazard, and how to avoid it’ (Routledge), and ‘Trust your gut: Go with your intuition and make better choices’ (Pearson Academic).
The E-Mail address of Professor Sadler-Smith is: e.sadler-smith@surrey.ac.uk
His website dedicated to the topic of Hubris is: www.thehubrishub.com
9 фев 2024
