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.
“There are many examples of sociopaths leading to spectacular corporate disasters.”
Perhaps, but again, simple logic dictates that this can’t be the general rule, or the system would have already self-corrected and we wouldn’t be discussing the issue.