Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Do CEOs have psychopath tendencies (and not in a completely bad way)?

From the link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-barker/which-professions-have-the-most-psychopaths_b_2084246.html


Interesting article at the link above lists professionals with the cold steely determination to succeed. They define psychopath as follows:

A personality disorder that has been variously described as characterized by the following:
  • Shallow emotions ( / reduced fear)
  • Stress tolerance
  • Lacking empathy
  • Coldheartedness
  • Lacking guilt
  • Egocentricity
  • Superficial characteristics
  • Manipulativeness
  • Irresponsibility
  • Impulsivity and
  • Antisocial behaviors (/ parasitic lifestyle / criminality).
List of professions:

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