Why is charisma so crucially important to today s corporations? And how might its misuse have been responsible for bringing the world s financial system crashing to its knees?"

Charismatic Leadership: The role of charisma in the global financial crisis" provides a theory-driven and intuitively appealing analysis of the role that charisma played in the global financial crisis of 2008. It looks at how charismatic leadership can contribute to organizational effectiveness, but also considers the destructive potential of its darker side. It examines the role of charisma in fuelling investor...

As featured in the BBC Radio 4 series Charisma: Pinning down the Butterfly and the BBC online magazine article Did big personalities worsen the financial crash? available here: http: //www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34021088

Why is charisma so crucially important to today s corporations? And how might its misuse have been responsible for bringing the world s financial system crashing to its knees?

Charismatic Leadership: The role of charisma in the global financial crisis provides a theory-driven and intuitively appealing analysis of the role that...

The financial markets are a rollercoaster and this book follows the same theme - the seduction of money, our ruinous, heady and high stakes pursuit of it, the incredible fortunes and calamitous losses that have been made in its name, the new and significant threat of retail (armchair) investors wanting their piece of the pie, and the perpetual and foolish mismatch that has always existed - and will always exist - between our evolutionary programming and the design of the financial markets. The title of the book is a play on words, and relates both to the need to 'work out' why Wall...