Confessions of a regulatory headhunter: how we led ourselves into financial crisis

Gotham City is reeling from the financial crisis, but we can depend on two super-heroes to save us: the Batman of leadership and the Robin of systems thinking. Or can we?Delivered at Gresham College on 26 January 2010

This public lecture at Gresham College, London asks why we seem incurious about possible connections between the financial ‘bubble’ and the leadership ‘bubble’ – or more exactly, the dangerous combination of an explosion in leadership rhetoric combined with systems thinking.