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Hubris and Narcissism in Management – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 957 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 957 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko Credit: Kampus Production Credit: Kampus Production Credit: Maria Orlova Credit: Safa Bakirci In the realm of management and leadership, the traits of hubris and narcissism are often prevalent to varying degrees and can significantly shape leadership styles and organizational dynamics. It is essential to understand how these traits manifest in leaders, their impact on management practices, and possible ways to mitigate their negative effects. Hubris Hubris is an ancient Greek term, literally translating to ‘excess’.  It describes a state of exaggerated self-belief and arrogance. People suffering from hubris imagine that the way t...

Core Leadership Behaviors Are Not What You Perceive – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #954 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #954 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Alena Darmel Credit: Anna Tarazevich Credit: Karolina Grabowska This blogpost is inspired by a McKinsey article authored by Claudio Feser, Fernando Mayol, and Ramesh Srinivasan. link at the end. Leadership is a buzzword which is thrown around a lot, particularly, these days. There is an unending discussion on essential attributes of leadership, what makes a leader, how should the leader think and act, leadership for change, and so on and on. It is a great transition from conventional management which was archaic, patriarchal, autocratic, and centralized. Management was about work and deployment of all types of resources to get work don...