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PSYCHOPATHY AT THE TOP
THE BOARDROOM STUDY
Psychopathy Is Almost Always Imagined As A Criminal
Movies And Headlines Keep It Locked Behind Bars
The Research Tells A Stranger Story
Those Same Traits Show Up In Offices And Boardrooms
Sometimes In The Person Running The Meeting
Often In The One Everyone Calls A Natural Leader
This Part Follows The Checklist From The Prison To The Top Floor
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OKAY BACK TO THE TOPIC 🏢
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THE MAN WHO BUILT THE CHECKLIST 📋
Robert Hare Is A Canadian Psychologist
He Spent His Career Studying Psychopathy
Most Of It Inside Prisons
He Needed A Way To Measure The Trait
Something Rigorous And Repeatable
So He Built The PCL-R
The Psychopathy Checklist Revised
It Is A Twenty Item Scale
Scored By A Trained Clinician
Each Item Rates One Trait
Shallow Emotion
Grandiosity
A Missing Sense Of Remorse
The Score Runs From Zero To Forty
Thirty And Above Flags Psychopathy
In The General Population
About One Percent Reaches That Line
For Years It Stayed In Prisons
It Lived In Forensic Work Alone
Nobody Had Pointed It At People In Suits
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THE STUDY THAT WALKED INTO THE OFFICE 💼
In 2010 A New Study Appeared
Paul Babiak And Craig Neumann Joined Hare
Together They Looked At Executives
Two Hundred And Three Of Them
Not Random People Off The Street
Each One Picked By Their Own Company
Marked For Management And Leadership
Hare And His Colleagues Scored Them
On The Very Same Checklist
Here Is What They Found
Around Four Percent Scored Thirty Or Higher
The General Population Sits Near One Percent
That Is Several Times The Rate
Among People Marked For The Top
The Number Was Not The Worst Part
Many Of The Highest Scorers Looked Promotable
They Read As Charming And Capable
Poor Performance Did Not Always Stop Them
They Could Win A Room And Keep Rising
The Traits That Should Have Warned Everyone
Read As Confidence Instead
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THE TRAITS THAT MATCHED THE BIOGRAPHY 🧩
One Thing Has To Be Said Clearly
None Of These Names Were Tested In A Lab
None Were Scored On The PCL-R
What Follows Is A Pattern
People Recognized It After The Fact
The Checklist Traits Line Up With The Record
That Is Hindsight
Not A Diagnosis
Bernie Madoff Ran The Largest Ponzi Scheme In History
For Years He Looked Safe
The Safest Man On Wall Street
He Pled Guilty In 2009
The Sentence Was 150 Years
People Still Remember His Calm
The Calm Of A Man Lying To Thousands
Andrew Fastow Was The Chief Financial Officer At Enron
He Built The Structures That Hid The Debt
Enron Collapsed In 2001
Fastow Served Six Years
He Later Admitted The Truth
He Knew Exactly What He Was Doing
Al Dunlap Was Nicknamed Chainsaw
For How He Ran Companies
At Sunbeam He Fired Thousands
He Closed Factories At Speed
The SEC Later Found Fraud In The Numbers
Much Of Sunbeam's Reported Income Was Not Real
He Seemed To Enjoy The Cutting
Then Said So Out Loud
None Of These Men Got A Clinical Label
They Share One Thing
A Set Of Traits The Checklist Was Built To Catch
Charm Without Warmth
Ambition Without Remorse
That Is The Overlap The Research Keeps Finding
