I have been reading your posts.
Think about this.
Look at the fifty largest companies from say, 1970, and compare them to the fifty largest companies today.
Most are different—many of the older largest companies have failed.
Now, one can claim it is due to changing technologies, competition, bla bla bla—but consider the other possibility being discussed on this thread.
It is very difficult to maintain a board of directors and management team that is both smart, innovative, and ethical—over the long term.
Imho the sociopaths are the largest cause of corporate demise, though I acknowledge there are other factors.
“Imho the sociopaths are the largest cause of corporate demise...”
If that is true, then the companies that hire them are hobbling themselves in competition with the companies that don’t hire them, and over time the companies that don’t hire them will run the other companies out of the market. Problem solved.
If that hasn’t happened, then why not?
I just don’t see how you can claim psychopaths are destroying all the companies that hire them, but then also claim that hiring of psychopaths is some very prevalent thing that many successful companies are doing.
I can certainly see that there is a potential downside to hiring psychopaths and giving them a lot of power. However, it seems there MUST also some positive benefit that is strong enough to outweigh the potential negatives, or the simple dynamics of the market would have corrected this already.