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KUBRIS [2 records]

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Record 1 2001-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personnel Management (General)
DEF

Overweening pride or self-confidence, arrogance.

CONT

When someone leaves a company involuntarily, listen for the official explanations like "personal conflict", "bad chemistry" and "philosophical differences". These are frequently code terms for hubris. Hubris derives from the ancient Greek word "hybris", which was considered a mortal sin. (Executive Strategies, 24.09.1991, p. 5).

CONT

It is a kind of intellectual hubris (even if it were not also folly) to suppose that moral responsibility is so readily derivable from the proper material conditions (National Review, 21.10.91).

OBS

Contrast with sophrosyne. Derived words: adjective hubristic (violent, wanton, insolent, vain) and hubristically (arrogantly, insolently).

Key term(s)
  • kubris

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion du personnel (Généralités)
DEF

Contenance hautaine et méprisante; affectation exagérée de dignité. Arrogance, hauteur, insolence, orgueil.

CONT

Leur morgue les préservait de toute sympathie humaine (Proust).

Spanish

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Record 2 2001-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic and Industrial Sociology
  • Corporate Structure
DEF

Acute egomania tending to self-destruction, inspired by film director Stanley Kubrick and applied to cyberworld auteurs who commit stupendous sums to projects by which they will presently change the world. Example: the failed multibillion-dollar bid by Oracle Corp.'s Larry Ellison in the mid 1990s to reinvent personal computing with hardware that never emerged from the lab.

OBS

Compare "hubris".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie économique et industrielle
  • Structures de l'entreprise
OBS

Comparer «morgue».

Spanish

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