A Model for the Emergence of Leaders’ Hubris Based on Interpretive Structural Modeling; Case Study: Government Organizations

This paper explores whether DICTION text analysis software reveals distinctive language markers of a verbal tone of hubris in annual letters to shareholders signed by CEOs of major companies. We analyze 193 letters to shareholders, comprising about 368,000 words, focusing initially on 23 letters signed by CEOs who are alleged to be hubristic: Browne (BP), Goodwin (Royal Bank of Scotland) and Mu...

Dr. Martin P. Paulus is currently a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego and the Associate Chief of Psychiatry at the San Diego Veterans Affairs Health Care System. He is a board-certified psychiatrist and regularly sees patients in the San Diego VA. His clinical care focuses on working with individuals with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder returning from Operation End...

Abstract This article reinterprets Thucydides's analysis of the post-Periclean turn in Athenian politics by reading it within context contemporary “tragic” and “scientific” explanatory traditions. It finds this an ambitious attempt to reinvent traditional, tragic pattern hubris-driven reversal reinterpreting its underlying causal logic according a scientific perspective which overdetermining ef...