When confidence is detrimental: Influence of overconfidence on leadership effectiveness

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 649-665

  Shipman, Amanda S ^a   Mumford, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Leader cognition; Overconfidence; Planning; Self confidence; Self efficacy; Vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960438128     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2011.05.006     Document Type: Article

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