“an individual who willfully commits acts of violence, engages in threatening behavior towards those around them, and in general skews the rules to reward themselves disproportionately and with out regard for shareholder value”
Ah, but that’s your personal definition, not the actual clinical definition of the type of person we’re talking about. So I’m not playing that game.
The fact is, if sociopaths running corporations led to the corporation failing, then the problem would have solved itself long ago and we wouldn’t be discussing it. We are discussing it, therefore that cannot have happened.
From the American Heritage Dictionary for Psychopath:
“A person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, cunning, manipulating, glibness, exploiting, heedlessness, arrogance, delusions of grandeur, sexual promiscuity, low self-control, disregard for morality, lack of acceptance of responsibility, callousness, and lack of empathy and remorse. Such an individual may be especially prone to violent and criminal offenses”
Seems to fit my definition just fine.
Keep trying.
There are many examples of sociopaths leading to spectacular corporate disasters.
Recent likely candidates include Boeing (shortcuts taken by senior management), Volkswagen (more shortcuts eventually caught by regulators), drug company execs who make big profits before going to jail for stock fraud and product fraud (several examples), insider and phony trading investment bankers, etc.
These folks are in almost every type of industry.
They can be found in every workplace—easy to find, particularly if you have forensic accounting skills.
They work out for short term objectives but typically destroy long term. They come in, meet some objective and the smart ones book it before the SHTF. Since most boards are made up of these vampires, they hire them regardless of long term consequences.