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Much ink has been spilled on the dangers of the narcissistic CEO. They tend to instil an individualistic culture throughout the corporation, which reduces collaboration and integrity. They are known make rash and risky decisions that can weaken a companys long-term resilience, and they are more likely to engage in aggressive tax avoidance and commit managerial fraud. Some management scientists have even speculated that narcissism can bring down entire companies, as may have been the case with the fall of Enron in 2001.
Despite these serious concerns about narcissistic leadership, surprisingly little is known about the way ways that these self-centred and over-confident people arrive at their positions of power in the first place. Does the ambition and hubris of narcissism actively help someone to be promoted, so that they are more likely to reach the top than the average person? Or are narcissistic leaders a toxic, but rather uncommon, phenomenon in the average workplace?
A new paper by Italian researchers attempts to close that gap in our knowledge and it has some serious implications for the ways that companies select and reward their employees.
There are many good reasons for suspecting that narcissists might get ahead more quickly than their colleagues. Without the humility that would prevent others from tooting their own horn, narcissists may be especially good at self-promotion and ensuring that their contributions are recognised even if they do not deserve to be held in such high esteem. (A 2017 study found that narcissists high appraisal of their own performance does not match objective measures of their actual achievements which are no more remarkable than those of the people around them.)
There are many good reasons for suspecting that narcissists might get ahead more quickly than their colleagues. Without the humility that would prevent others from tooting their own horn, narcissists may be especially good at self-promotion and ensuring that their contributions are recognised even if they do not deserve to be held in such high esteem. (A 2017 study found that narcissists high appraisal of their own performance does not match objective measures of their actual achievements which are no more remarkable than those of the people around them.)
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210830-how-narcissists-climb-the-career-ladder-quickly
Turbineguy
(37,208 posts)TFG?
SWBTATTReg
(21,859 posts)Believe me, if these are the people that toot their own horns, they are their own worst enemies and oftentimes get caught w/ their pants down, when they get caught touting themselves when others deserve the credit.
When will DJT finally get his due, w/ the suspected tax fraud and worse (over-inflating value of assets, under-inflating value of assets, depending on what is being applied for)?
When will he finally be held liable for sexually abusing/attacking women (and children possibly)? When will his money/payoffs finally run out and no longer work?
I am still waiting for these shoes to drop, still haven't seen anything really.
The last I know, they're still fighting releasing tax returns, have been doing it for years...when is enough, enough? Are the wheels of justice really that slow, or is this a case of one w/ too much money getting to peddle all kinds of irrelevant facts before the Courts, thus delaying any kind of justice?
ARPad95
(1,671 posts)Last edited Tue Sep 7, 2021, 01:09 PM - Edit history (7)
after her reigns of terror at two other well-known companies (per her victims at those companies). What I had that she didn't...
an outstanding established work history and a stellar reputation for being able to work well with my co-workers and the management alike. I didn't have a single enemy in the workplace.
When her harassment became unbearable (I was pregnant at the time), I sent a memo to the CEO who was very Democratic and all about empowering women and minorities in his company. I asked to meet with him so I could explain why I was regretfully resigning. He gave me that meeting and listened intently to my recounting of everything she had been doing to me since she found out I was pregnant. (She had flipped out because I was the peon that made her look good and she realized she had only a few months of "cover" left. That's what narcissists do. The minute they realize they're going to lose their supply, the mask they put on for others comes off and they attack like the vicious vipers they truly are!)
It just so happened right before I left the company that I shared an elevator ride at the end of the workday with the Sr VP Marketing & Acquisitions who had been the company's long-time General Counsel. He was an extremely intelligent and analytical man who I had actually worked for in the legal department. He was also the CEO's right-hand man. They built the company from the ground up. He must have seen the distress on my face that I was feeling inside. He simply said in a gentle tone, "Things are going to work out." That's all I needed to hear.
I filed for unemployment and got it with no questions asked beyond describing my situation on the application. I then took my pregnant self to an Employment and Labor Law attorney after making a pit-stop at the local New York State Division of Human Rights office.
The attorney wrote a letter to the CEO, I got my job back and was able to work a couple of months before I went on maternity leave (it lasted years ). The psycho narcissist was no longer the Sr VP Finance who reported directly to the CEO. She was "demoted" and reported directly to the Sr VP Marketing & Acquisitions with nobody reporting to her. SWEEEEEEET! Other good employees had left after I did and, when I came back, one of the guys in the legal department said, "We called it the [insert my rhyming last name] Ripple Effect."
All's well that ends well.
P.S. The CEO eventually married a woman who became mayor of the city. He definitely wasn't a man afraid of a woman in power (for either good or bad intentions).
BeerBarrelPolka
(1,202 posts)Is a malignant narcissist to an almost unbelievable degree. When Trump was in office for about a month, three of my friends called me to tell me, "Wow, you're ex-wife is president of the USA!". I laughed because I saw all the traits of being a narc in Trump long, long before he even announced his campaign.
ARPad95
(1,671 posts)outrageous braggart
extreme jealousy of anyone he perceives is better than him (that's a majority of the human race, even some of the ones who kiss his ass)
trashing everyone (dead or alive) he has ever encountered who made him look bad (no, he did that all by himself)
pathological liar
lazy do-nothing who thinks the one thing he lifted a finger to do deserves the accolades of the entire world for the next century
zero ability to sympathize let alone empathize
nothing that ever happened to you was worse or better than what happened to him and he's going to go on ad nauseum to tell you why
worst person to go to in a crisis or have to depend on in a crisis because he decompensates in a heartbeat if called upon to do something for another living thing; after all it is all about him 24/7
land so on and so on...there's no end to the list