cardemaister wrote: >--- In [email protected], bbrigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>"...psychologists Belinda Board and Katarina Fritzon at the >>University of Surrey, who interviewed and gave personality tests to >>39 high-level British executives and compared their profiles with >>those of criminals and psychiatric patients. The executives were >> >> >even > > >>more likely to be superficially charming, egocentric, insincere, >> >> >and > > >>manipulative, and just as likely to be grandiose, exploitative, and >>lacking in empathy. Board and Fritzon concluded that the >>businesspeople they studied might be called "successful >> >> >psychopaths." > > >>In contrast, the criminals -- the "unsuccessful psychopaths" -- >> >> >were > > >>more impulsive and physically aggressive." >> >> >>http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/96/open_boss.html >> >>Is Your Boss a Psychopath? >>Odds are you've run across one of these characters in your career. >>They're glib, charming, manipulative, deceitful, ruthless -- and >>very, very destructive. And there may be lots of them in America's >>corner offices. >> >> > >Well, duh! I think it's obvious that it's mainly that kind >of people who strive to become bosses! > > > From my past observations they are very *blind* to what they are doing. Being blind they just forge ahead with what they are doing regardless of the destruction and negativity it creates whereas more intelligent and aware people would be more careful. So they may blunder themselves into successful but they more often in the long term blunder their way into failure.
Another part of the equation is the Frankenstein monster we've created with publicly held companies. With these the CEO's work for the stockholders at all costs to keep the stock price up ignoring the effect on customers, society and the environment. It is a brave CEO indeed who stands up and says "we will not pursue this course of action because it is not in the *long term* best interests of the company." After his retirement from Intel, former CEO Andy Grove in a talk at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco told of how he was not free to speak his mind as it would have effect the Intel stock price. - Bhairitu To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
