do-psychopaths-really-make-better-leaders

[RainbowUnicorn]

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/2017110...er-leaders

Psychopathic personality traits are often seen as desirable in the corporate environment, but research suggests they can do more harm than good.

Take a look around your office. Would you classify any of your colleagues as psychopathic?

While it may be a term more often associated with film industry depictions of knife-wielding killers like Hannibal Lecter and Dexter Morgan, there is evidence that suggests psychopaths are surprisingly common in the business environment.

Studies have indicated that, depending where you look, up to one in five of those filling company boardrooms and senior management positions are hiding psychopathic tendencies, using certain personality traits to charm and manipulate their way through the workplace.

Research by New York-based psychologist Paul Babiak's has suggested up to 4% of business leaders in the US could be psychopaths. Another study of supply chain managers found between 3% and 21% had clinically significant psychopathy, compared to 1% of the general population.

Hedge fund managers scoring higher for psychopathy perform worse than their colleagues, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Denver and the University of California, Berkeley. They compared the personality traits of 101 hedge fund managers with their investments and financial returns from 2005 to 2015, and found those with greater psychopathic tendencies produced lower returns.

Leanne ten Brinke,lead author of the research and an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Denver, believes it is time to “rethink” old assumption that ruthlessness and callousness are favourable traits for business managers.

interesting to think about the psychopathy of bulying as a social culture

Studies show that chief executives with high psychopathy scores tend to be seen as charismatic, creative and adept at communicating. This is because a psychopath’s charm can smooth over behavioural issues, according to a study in 2010 by Babiak.

[Magical Realist]

Tyrell Wellick in Mr. Robot for instance...

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Or Patrick Bateman in American Psycho...

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[RainbowUnicorn]

Tyrell Wellick in Mr. Robot for instance...

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Or Patrick Bateman in American Psycho...

have not seen either movie.
Mr Robot, that  narating character is from train spotting?
looking at the shorts(on youtube) the acting looks 1st class, cinematography looks quite good, but without the backstory narative it seems somewhat forced into a dictational singular perspective.
not sure it would appeal to many women.