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Description and Reviews  Reader's Index  About the Author  Table of Contents  Customer Reviews  Find Similar Items See Also:  Business SITE INDEX LeaderShop: Main Page Title Index A-K Title Index L-Z Becoming a Leader Biography Business Family Life Harvard Business School Press Personal Development Reference Browse by Author Fax Order Form Privacy Shipping ---------------------- LeadershipNow: Main Page LeadingArticles LeadingBlog LeadershipMinute LeadingThoughts ---------------------- Contact Us: Communicore Secure Online Ordering Guaranteed! • Keeping Your Ego in Check		Ego Check: Why Executive Hubris is Wrecking Companies and Careers and How to Avoid the Trap Mathew Hayward Retail Price: $24.95 LS Price: $0.00 Availability: Out-of-Print Format: Hardcover, 272pp. ISBN: 9781419535352 Publisher: Kaplan Business Pub. Date: January 2, 2007 Average Customer Review:   Out-Of-Print A new copy is not available from the LeaderShop at this time. A used copy may be available from our network of book dealers. Search Out-of-Print   Description and Reviews From The Publisher: In the business world, how much self-confidence is too much? That’s the question Mathew Hayward sets out to answer in his exciting new book, Ego Check: Why Executive Hubris is Wrecking Companies and Careers and How to Avoid the Trap. Hayward, one of the foremost writers and researchers on the topic of executive hubris, examines the critical point at which the same self-confidence necessary for success crosses the line into destructive behaviors that can ruin careers and companies. Ego Check offers original research gleaned from more than 200 interviews he conducted with executives at premier companies, such as Cisco, Dell, Goldman Sachs, Intel, Morgan Stanley, and Pearson, on the topics of leadership, confidence, and hubris. Hayward also includes over 50 interviews with entrepreneurs whose firms were successfully acquired by larger companies. CEOs profiled range from convicted felon Bernard Ebbers to talented executives like John Sculley and Dean Kamen, whose successful careers have been disrupted by hubris. In Ego Check, readers learn: How extreme optimism leads executives to unrealistic expectations for the future. Why a sense of self-worth tied to money, title, or fame is a dangerous illusion. What can go wrong when executives extend beyond their capabilities. Why it’s critical for executives to reduce dependence on others and shift focus from extrinsic to intrinsic rewards. How executives from Apple, Segway, Dell, and Vivendi have fallen prey to hubris—and how today’s leaders can avoid the same mistakes.   Reader's Index  Send us your favorite quotes or passages from this book.   About the Author Mathew Hayward, PhD, worked as a consultant with Accenture and an investment banker with UBS. In 1992, he left the corporate world for academia to pursue a doctorate at Columbia University in New York. He is now an assistant professor at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado, and his writing has appeared in The Economist, the New York Times, Harper’s magazine, and USA Today. Table of Contents Contents Customer Reviews Write your own online review. Find Items On Similar Subjects egonomics: Making Our Greatest Liability an Asset

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