“She was interviewing a psychopath. She showed him a picture of a frightened face and asked him to identify the emotions. He said he didn’t know what the emotion was but it was the face people pulled just before he killed them.”
(The Psychopath Test, Jon Ronson)
A Boardroom Blitz
A Boardroom Blitz
Psychopaths lack empathy, are pathological liars, have an enormous
sense of self-worth, are impulsive, irresponsible and won’t accept
responsibility for their own actions.
They make up 1% of the total population, 25% of the criminal population
and, by some accounts, 4% of corporate boardrooms.
Of course, someone who believes that the only role of
business is to maximise profits, regardless of the human cost, is only
following the mantra of standard economic theory. On the other hand, an academic discipline that
provides covert justification for a behavior pattern that would get you locked
up outside corporate HQs may just have reached the end of its natural lifespan.
