#darktriad - Psychopathy | Narcissism | Machiavellianism

The dark side harbors the bright side…I guess
It’s Friday - copy-paste from Harvard Business Review:

• Narcissism was positively linked to salary
• Machiavellianism was positively linked to leadership level and career satisfaction
• individuals with psychopathic and narcissistic characteristics gravitated towards the top of the organizational hierarchy and had higher levels of financial attainment
• Base rate for clinical levels of psychopathy is three times higher among corporate boards than in the overall population
• Dark triad traits tend to enhance competitiveness, if only by inhibiting cooperation and altruistic behaviors at work
• dark triad personality characteristics constitute the essence of the freeriding
• An intermediate – rather than low – level of Machiavellianism predicts the highest level of organisational citizenship, perhaps because Machiavellian individuals are politically savvy and good at networking and managing upwards
• Best leaders displayed the bright-side features of narcissism while inhibiting its dark-side traits: they were high in egotism and self-esteem but low in manipulativeness and impression management

...for me, it’s all about Balance