Hubristic Leadership - Eugene Sadler-Smith
Leadership 2.0
English - February 09, 2024 14:00 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MBManagement Business Government business coaching change management social media human resources talent management personal development leadership business psychology management consultancy Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode, I am interviewing Eugene Sadler-Smith about hubristic leadership. A highly relevant topic in the light of the corporate scandals we faced in the last two decades, as well as the current geo-political tensions we are seeing around us.
None of these would have happened without hubristic leaders.
During our conversation, Eugene and I discussed the following topics:
03:00 The meaning of hubris
05:05 Examples of hubristic leaders in politics and business
11:00 The origins of hubris: nature and/or nurture?
14:57 Do we co-create hubristic leaders?
20:26 Recognizing hubristic leaders by the language they use
27.57 How can teams become hubristic
33:06 Eugene's new book: 'The Hubris Hazard'
38:08 The role of HR and Leadership Development professionals
40:03 Does hubris also have a bright side?
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).
He 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 Eugene Sadler-Smith is: [email protected]
His website dedicated to the topic of Hubris is: www.thehubrishub.com