Master's thesis
Submission of a collection of insights from slovenian leaders on the psychology of reaching the top and staying there, created as part of a master’s thesis, to the social science data archives (ADP)
As a master’s student of psychology at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, I conducted a study on the psychological principles underlying exceptional success in business and politics between 2023 and 2025, under the supervision of Dr Boštjan Bajec, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology. Quite early on, my observations in practice led me to the idea that there are universal principles of success in life and at work – more specifically in business and politics, since I focused on those areas that were empirically closest to me from my own school of life.
Forthcoming master’s thesis
Every society needs leaders. The better they are, the greater the general well-being of society and the country. When planning my master’s thesis I took as my starting points the GLOBE study Culture, Leadership, and Organizations (House, 2004), the study 11 Essential Traits of Great Managers (Culture Amp, n.d.), McClelland’s theory of achievement motivation (1978), ancient views of the principles of successful government (Professor Zore’s lectures, autumn 2023; Marcus Aurelius, 2002), the concepts of happiness (Wright, 2004), resilience (Sutcliffe and Vogus, 2003), vitality (Cameron, Dutton and Quinn, 2003), enthusiasm, theories of power (Voyer and McIntosh, 2013; Martí et al., 2009)