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The gist of the article is based on research done by a psychologist. He identified many traits of psychopaths/sociopaths as people who have no real empathy with others, and continually use/abuse them for their own personal gain.

He developed a screening profile that is used by police forces etc to make sure they don't hire these people.

The article examines how many CEOs and other industry leaders have similar profiles. The difference is that criminal psychopaths tend to be violent and work against the system, where as white collar ones are often brought up in middle class homes, are non violent, and work within the system.

It gives a quiz to see if your boss is one - are they charming? insincere? don't really care about people but put on a show about it? etc. Made me think of politicians - especially W.

I found it pretty interesting. Certainly most of the way leaders fit the bill.

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