Eugene Sadler-Smith is Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Surrey Business School. His research interests are hubris (in leadership) and intuition (in decision-making). He has written numerous articles as well as number of books including ‘The Intuitive Mind’ (John Wiley and Sons, 2010; translated into Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Russian), ‘Hubristic Leadership’ (Sage, 2019 with a Foreword by Lord David Owen) ‘Human Resource Development: From Theory into Practice’ (Sage 2022). His latest book ‘Intuition in Business’ will be published by Oxford University Press in 2023. Professor Sadler-Smith is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (FCIPD), Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), and Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS). He leads ‘The Hubris Project’ at Surrey Business School, has worked with various public, private and professional organizations including the Scottish, Welsh and UK governments, and his research has featured on the BBC Radio and Sky TV, and in The Guardian, The Times, and Forbes magazine.
Publications
Akstinaite, V., & Sadler-Smith, E. (2021). Entrepreneurial hubris. In L. Dana (Ed.), World Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurship (2nd ed., pp. 139-144). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Akstinaite, V., Garrard, P., Sadler-Smith, E. (2021). Identifying Linguistic Markers of CEO Hubris: A Machine Learning Approach. British Journal of Management, 33(3), 1163-1178. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12503
Akstinaite, V., Robinson, G., & Sadler-Smith, E. (2020). Linguistic Markers of CEO Hubris. Journal of Business Ethics, 167(4), 687-705. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-019-04183-y
Akstinaitė, V., & Sadler Smith, E. (2022). Advancing management research methodologies: Using computational linguistics and machine learning to predict gender from intuition language. In British Academy of Management Conference, 31st August – 2nd September, 1-19
Sadler-Smith, E., & Akstinaitė, V. (2021). Identification of linguistic markers of insight and intuition using computer-assisted text analysis: Brief report. Journal Of Creative Behavior, 56(2), 296-303. https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.530
Sadler-Smith, E., & Akstinaitė, V. (2021). Human hubris, anthropogenic climate change, and an environmental ethic of humility. Organization & Environment, 35(3), 446–467. https://doi.org/10.1177/10860266211039000
Sadler Smith, E., & Akstinaitė, V. (2022). Did destructive leadership help create the conditions for the spread of Covid-19, and what are the early warning signs? Leadership (Lond), 19(1), 7-26. http://doi.org/10.1177/17427150221104890
Sadler-Smith, E., Akstinaite, V., Robinson, G., Wray, T. (2018). Hubristic leadership: Understanding the hazard and mitigating the risks. Organizational Dynamics, 48(2), 8-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orgdyn.2018.05.007
Sadler-Smith, E., Akstinaite, V., Robinson, G., & Wray, T. (2017). Hubristic leadership: A review. Leadership, 13(5), 525-548
Sadler‐Smith, E., Akstinaite, V., & Akinci, C. (2021). Identifying the linguistic markers of intuition in human resource (HR) practice. Human Resource Management Journal, 32(3), 584-602. https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12410
Sinclair, M., Bakken, B. T., Haerem, T., Fuller, R., Vera, D., Samba, C., Williams, D. W., Ferreira Dias, S. E., Iizuka, E. S., Grant, M., Nilsson, F., Hodgkinson, G. P., Akinci, C., Akstinaitė, V., & Sadler-Smith, E. (2023). Intuition in organizations: New theoretical and methodological perspectives: Accessing intuition through linguistic markers. In Academy of Management Proceedings (2023, 1, pp. 1-1). Academy of Management. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2023.10126symposium
