Why Psychopaths Make Great CEOs 🏢

What happens when you take the ruthless, manipulative traits of a psychopath and combine them with high intelligence? You get the successful psychopath. They don't commit physical crimes, they commit financial and psychological ones. In the corporate world, their pathology is often rewarded, their superficial charm is mistaken for charisma, their complete lack of anxieties praised as grace under pressure, and their chilling ability to fire a thousand people without losing a second of sleep is rewarded as strong executive leadership.

Their organisational predators, flying in, draining the resources, scapegoating their colleagues and walking away with a golden parachute.