عنوان

Ego check :

شابک

1419535358

شابک

9781419535352

شماره

b720885

عنوان اصلي

Ego check :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

why executive hubris is wrecking companies and careers and how to avoid the trap /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Mathew Hayward.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Chicago :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Kaplan Pub.,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

©2007.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xix, 251 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations ;

ابعاد

24 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-240) and index.

متن يادداشت

Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Introduction 1 -- The Four Sources of Hubris 3 -- Do Check your Ego ¿ Just Don¿t Leave it At the Door! 5 -- It¿s All in the Research 7 -- How This Book Helps You Become a Better Decision-Maker 8 -- CHAPTER 1: The High Stakes of Hubris 1 -- A Deadly Lesson in Hubris 2 -- A Framework for Managing Hubris while Remaining Highly Confident 8 -- The Hallmarks of Confidence, Overconfidence, and Hubris 9 -- Applying the Framework to Our Decisions 11 -- Acknowledging the Dual Nature of Overconfident Thinking 14 -- Considering the Case of Hank Greenberg: Overconfidence at the American International Group 19 -- Summary 26 -- CHAPTER 2: The Culture of Overconfidence: How We Manage Our Most Critical Decisions 1 -- Overconfidence and Entrepreneurship: Dean Kamen and the Segway 2 -- First Inventions: Designing Products for the Ill and Disabled 2 -- From Inventor to Entrepreneur: The Segway Moves Kamen into Business Management 5 -- Exploring the Limits of the Segway¿s Success 10 -- Betting on Success: How Other Entrepreneurs Bank on Beating the Odds 13 -- Overconfidence and Investing 16 -- Overconfidence and Personal Health-Management 19 -- Underestimating our Health Risks 19 -- Overestimating Our Abilities to Diagnose and Cure Problems 20 -- Encouraging Overconfidence in Doctors 25 -- Hubris and Education-Management 27 -- Training Students to be Overconfident 27 -- Grade Inflation and Overconfidence in Higher Education 28 -- Summary 30 -- Chapter 3: How Excessive Pride Feeds Executive Hubris 1 -- Understanding the Sources and Nature of Excessive Pride 2 -- Apple Computer, Inc.: A Case Study of Excessive Pride 5 -- Steve Jobs and the Limits of His Genius 7 -- Sculley Lands at Apple 14 -- Overestimating Skills and Underestimating the Market 18 -- Jobs¿ NeXT Lesson in Overweening Pride 21 -- Jobs¿ Grounds His Pride and Leverages His Talents 22 -- Placing the Jobs and Sculley Experience in the Framework 25 -- Invalid Data: How CEOs Respond to Positive and Negative Data. 27 -- Celebrity CEOs: Buying into the Myth 28 -- The Dangers of Denial: How Executives Fail when they Ignore Negative Feedback 31 -- Guided by Pride: A Link between Executive Hubris and Higher Premiums Paid in Mergers and Acquisitions 34 -- Avoiding and Managing Excessive Pride 39 -- Summary 41 -- CHAPTER 4: Getting the Right Help: Delegating and Decision-Making 1 -- Getting The Right Input When Decision Making is Centralized 3 -- HP¿s Carly Fiorina Goes it Alone¿And Loses 3 -- Finding and Trusting the Right Foils at Oracle Corp. 9 -- Ellison Learns the Rules of Sound Delegation 10 -- Differing Views of Ellison¿s Trusted Advisors 13 -- Preventing Power From Begetting Hubris: Evidence from Berkshire Hathaway¿s Warren Buffett 20 -- Decision-Making Based on Well-Founded Confidence, Not Ego and Pride 22 -- Knowing When to Step Back, Step In, and Step Aside 24 -- Getting the Right Help When Decision-Making is Decentralized 27 -- When Executives Trust Too Much: Martin Sorrell and the WPP Group¿s ¿Benattigate¿ 27 -- Meg Whitman and Decentralized Decision Making at EBay. 33 -- Empowering Decision-Makers at All Levels 33 -- A Structured Approach to Defusing Overconfident Decisions 36 -- Summary 38 -- Chapter 5: Grounding Judgment In Feedback 1 -- Gauging the Quality of Feedback and Our Willingness to Act on It 2 -- Decision-making Based on Grounded Judgment. 5 -- Decision-Making Based on Selective Judgment 9 -- Linking Compensation to Overconfident Judgment 10 -- Optimism as a Tool for Dealing with Relentless Negative Feedback 12 -- Decision-Making Based On Speculative Judgment 14 -- Merck¿s Management of Vioxx 16 -- Under-estimating Risks and Over-estimating the Power of Marketing 21 -- From Speculative to Hapless Judgment at Merck: Failing to Act on Feedback about Vioxx. 24 -- A Long and Painful Lesson in Executive Hubris 26 -- Decision-Making Based on Hapless Judgment 32 -- Using Forced Ranking Systems to Provide Effective Feedback 33 -- The Failings of the Forced Ranking System 35 -- Summary 37 -- CHAPTER 6: Managing Tomorrow Today 1 -- A Framework for Consequence Management 3 -- Decision-Making At Scaled Composites 8 -- Establishing What Could Go Wrong with a Premature Launch of SpaceShipOne 10 -- Acting on Problems that Emerged During SpaceShipOne¿s Testing 11 -- Scaled¿s Backup and Loss-Mitigation Action 13 -- On-Going Challenges: From SpaceShipOne to Space Tourism 14 -- Decision-Making and Consequence Management at NASA 16 -- Underestimating the Worst Case Scenario 17 -- NASA¿s Failure to Act on Adverse Knowledge: Evidence From Challenger and Columbia 20 -- A Failure to Prepare for the Consequences of a Shuttle Disaster 24 -- Voicing Concerns in a ¿Mission Accomplished¿ Culture 27 -- Constructing a Process for Establishing What Can go Wrong 29 -- Priming the Organization to Act On Evidence Of Problems 30 -- Building a Backup or Loss-mitigation Action Plan 31 -- Summary 32 -- Chapter 7: From Overconfidence To Hubris ¿ Jean-Marie Messier¿s Reign At Vivendi 1 -- Messier¿s Rising Star Explodes into Excessive Pride 4 -- Messier Takes Charge 5 -- A Love Affair with the Press 7 -- Messier Chooses Pride Over Judgment 8 -- Squandered Resources: Messier Fails to Heed Input and Delegate Decisions 11 -- Selective Judgment at Work: Messier Dismisses Negative Feedback 14 -- The Final Act of Hubris: A Failure to Manage Consequences 16 -- Summary 20 -- CHAPTER 8: Overcoming Hubris -- Lessons from Michael Dell of Dell, Inc. 1 -- Michael Dell¿s Grounded Pride 3 -- Struggling to Maintain an Internal Locus of Pride 4 -- Learning From False Pride 7 -- Getting The Right Help: Michael Dell Turns to Lee Walker and Kevin Rollins 12 -- Bringing in Experts to Help a Changing Business 13 -- Sharing Power and Delegating Decision-Making 15 -- Leveraging Differences in Collaborative Decision-Making 17 -- Ensuring That Executives Use Extensive and Timely Feedback 18 -- Managing Tomorrow Through Today¿s Decisions And Actions 21 -- Entering a New Market: Managing What Could Go Wrong 22 -- Mitigating Negative Consequences 23 -- 25 -- Summary 26 -- Some Closing Comments 28 -- Index.

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Decision making.

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Entrepreneurship-- Psychological aspects.

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Success in business-- Psychological aspects.

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Business failures.

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Business failures.

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Decision making.

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Decision making.

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Entrepreneurship-- Psychological aspects.

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Entrepreneurship-- Psychological aspects.

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Success in business-- Psychological aspects.

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Success in business-- Psychological aspects.

شماره

ويراست

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نشانه اثر

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کد سيستم

کد سيستم

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Hayward, Mathew.

تاريخ عمليات

20201208123254.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y