{"id":4082,"date":"2015-01-05T08:59:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T13:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4082"},"modified":"2015-01-05T08:59:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T13:59:33","slug":"2015-a-world-ruled-by-hubris-willful-blindness-and-desperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4082","title":{"rendered":"2015: A World Ruled by Hubris, Willful Blindness and Desperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/charleshughsmith.blogspot.ca\/2015\/01\/2015-world-ruled-by-hubris-willful.html\">2015: A World Ruled by Hubris, Willful Blindness and Desperation<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><i>Issuing lies and pursuing willful blindness is not leadership: it&#8217;s failure on a grand scale.<\/i><\/p>\n<div><b>Rather than issue predictions for 2015, this week I&#8217;ll cover themes that I believe will be consequential in the year ahead.<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>The first theme is the dominant psychological dynamic of global leadership, which can be distilled down to a toxic brew of Hubris, Willful Blindness and Desperation.<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><b>Examples of leadership hubris abound,<\/b>\u00a0and they all arise from the false confidence that the same playbook and tools that rescued the Status Quo from well-deserved oblivion for the past six years will continue working splendidly in the years ahead.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Prime examples include the Federal Reserve, which clearly believes its own PR (we are omnipotent and the markets rise at our command) and China&#8217;s leadership, which clearly believes that the strategies and tools that rescued China from implosion in 2008-09 can be applied to the entirely different problem of deflating the world&#8217;s greatest quadruple-bubble in shadow banking, real estate, commodities and state-owned enterprises (SEOs).<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015: A World Ruled by Hubris, Willful Blindness and Desperation Issuing lies and pursuing willful blindness is not leadership: it&#8217;s failure on a grand scale. Rather than issue predictions for 2015, this week I&#8217;ll cover themes that I believe will be consequential in the year ahead. \u00a0 The first theme is the dominant psychological dynamic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[130,305,2427,2426],"class_list":["post-4082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-china","tag-federal-reserve","tag-hubris","tag-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4083,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082\/revisions\/4083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}