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June 23, 2005
Is your boss a psychopath?
(Posted by francois to: random brainsqualls )The latest issue of Fast Company has a whole article on Psychopath bosses (not online yet- will link as soon as up). The article also comes with a quick quiz to help you calculate the extend of the problem:
- Is he glib and superficially charming?
- Does he have a grandiose sense of self-worth?
- Is he a pathological liar?
- Is he a con artist or a master manipulator
- When he harms other people, does he feel the lack of remorse or guilt?
- Does he have a shallow effect
- Is he callous and lacking empathy
- Does he fail to accept responsibility for his own actions?
Then compute your score.
- 1-4....be frustrated
- 5-7....be cautious
- 8-12....be afraid
- 13-16....be very afraid
It is amazing to me how companies can function with people like this in prominent positions (see also the revenge of the "c"th). Or maybe it just tells us something about the resilience of companies as social organism...
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Comments
Sounds like a description of Ted Bundy ;-) but seriously I've had bosses with all of the above.
The high self-worth is probably number one. Accepting responsibilies is another. But then again I've had some really cool bosses, but sadly not enough of them. During the internet crazy days (1998-2000) so-called eBosses were fun - but then we all know what happened to that bubble....
Posted by: Martin at July 3, 2005 11:47 PM
