What are humans taught in a fast pace culture regularly teaching to those growing up? For Americans there is a certain dream brought in history to a small child often called “The American dream”. A place to strive for, a dream of success, a place of achievement where one is living out their fantasy life in luxury. Naturally being in charge of a large, prosperous corporation CEO position is a perfect example. It attracts many around including those who find the money and power most appealing: psychopaths. Not every single person in a high-powered positions is considered; therefore shared traits between both such as having a ruthless, manipulation and self-ambitious persona.
Vile acts seemed to be condoned rather than condemned, and empathy seems to have been thrown out for a ruthless nature regarding how to be successful. To do that we must consider how the CEO must go about making his decisions even if they are ruthless. Employees must be let go at some point in time during the duration of the business as not everything is large or grand all at once. When business does poorly the CEOs are unable to pay some of the employees though the experience is different for each individual and sometimes the CEO must let go more than just what he thought. This detached decision is often considered heartless and unsympathetic, therefore connecting with a psychopathic trait. In addition to ruthless acts, competition is high when within the free market, and sometimes the CEO must tear them down. Ensuring the businesses survival is key to success, so when rivals come along that may put out businesses, the CEO has to be better to vanquish the threat. When it is anyone’s game there will be times where the CEO have to be ruthless when it jeopar...
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Success does not come without its downfalls especially when it begins to deal with the people we need less. Though these psychopathic people seem to come off as common place for how they act and deal with decision making within their company. As a result they can show a wide range of negative traits that relates to psychopathy but are not really psychopaths themselves. For example their ruthlessness towards other individuals, ranging from their employees to competing businesses. Feeling above moral ground for controlling everything about themselves to striving to achieve their self-ambitious needs to cure their boredom. All of these, however can be explained away quite easily but ironically the similarities are uncanny, and unfortunately there is no way to stop these types of people without them committing a terrible crime.
Hare used these core factors to develop the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised assessment tool that helps detect psychopathy in people. They developed this theory because psychopathic behavior was thought of as miscellaneous of a topic to be categorized in one or two factors. The four recommended factors proposed by Hare and Neumann are: Interpersonal, Affective, Lifestyle and Antisocial. The first factor, interpersonal consists of superficial charm, manipulation, pathological lying, and a grandiose sense of self-worth. Secondly, the affective factor involves the lack of remorse or guilt, shallow affect, callous and/or lack of empathy, and failure to accept responsibility for own actions. The third factor is lifestyle, which comprises of need for stimulation and/or proneness to boredom, parasitic lifestyle, impulsivity, irresponsibility, unsatisfactory work habits, and lack of realistic long-term goals. Finally the fourth factor is antisocial and contains poor behavioral controls, early behavior problems, juvenile delinquency, criminal versatility, and revocation of conditional release (Hare & Neumann, 2005, p.58-59). According to Hare and Neumann “The 4 psychopathy factors are significantly interrelated, and thus can be comprehensively explained by a single superordinate (that is, psychopathy) factor.” (Hare, R. D., & Neumann, C. S.
As we lose ourselves and our values, worth, and identity as people in the corporate culture, the objectives of monetary profit, status within a company, and machine-like work ethics replace our ethical judgement and our values as people. Perhaps there is nothing we can do about it; after all Skilling and Fastow did not realize what they were doing is immoral and illegal until they were sentenced or even released from their sentence. We are all too absorbed in this capitalistic corporate world we live in. Just like the ancient Chinese philosopher Fu Xuan said, “He who is close to the ink will be stained black,” (Fu, “Prince Shao Fu Xuan”), We have been too used to the immorality and unethical practices of corporate culture that we’re not only numb to the wrongdoings of others within this capitalist society, but we also replace our values as people and our ambitions to do good with objectives of the corporate world. Prebbles posed us the question that after centuries of capitalism’s existence in our society, will our ambitions to do good prevail against our monetary desires and the corporate norm of only profit-driven decisions?
Psychopaths all have something in common, and that's luring unexpected people in their traps. Its part of human nature to wonder and question the unknown. Psychopaths are a clear example of the unknown with their personalities and behaviors that are far from the norm on a continuum. We wonder what makes them do some of the unimaginable and horrific things to people and/or animals. How could be prevent psychopaths from taking advantage and lessening the harm on the people that they can hurt. Not surprisingly, psychologists are trying to find pinpoints that can protect the psychopath and public from them.
...not function without an element of ruthlessness and a need to win. Could any capitalist be called a sociopath? In my opinion I believe that while this non-fiction novel does enlighten us to some degree on the nature and behaviors of sociopaths, it is not a myopic and in depth study worth putting any faith-based investments into. Also, it fails to answer a major and simple question: what does the future hold for these ‘monsters’? Will the population of sociopaths increase exponentially, until it is they who must destroy us for being the minority? Or are their numbers diminishing due to social awareness about this condition? Is sociopathy purely biological in nature or does this personality disorder also stem from personal experience or otherwise? In short, this book raises more questions that in answers, resulting in a disappointing and unfulfilled search for truth.
They are said to be successful and have successful careers because there way of thinking is different than ours. Many may think they are not to have a successful live, but they are able to do this because their mind is able to think differently than others. In the eBook, "Psychopathy can be a way to succeed and even reach the highest echelons of the business, political and professional worlds." In other words, Their lack of empathy makes them able to succeed.
Sociopaths are prevalent among society, and some researchers, like Martha Stout, claim that one out of every twenty-five people is a sociopath. However, this statistic is incorrect. This statistic is based on the assumption that sociopaths and psychopaths are the same people—which is untrue. While the sociopathic and psychopathic traits overlap, sociopaths differ in that they are obviously nervous and agitated, unable to create the illusions that psychopaths are so proud of. They live on the fringes of society, uneducated and unable to keep a steady job. Psychopaths, unlike sociopaths, are suave and able to maintain an illusion of conformity and maintain relationships on a superficial level. Both, however, are dominantly male, tend to disregard the rights and social mores of others, and have a tendency display violent and disruptive outbursts without remorse. Unlike psychopaths, who completely lack remorse and the ability to love, sociopaths may attach themselves to certain people, though they still remain contemptuous of the rest of humanity (7).
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They need to be broken down into the categories of sociopaths and psychopaths before that is determined. The research provided explains that in the case of sociopaths, they are more likely to be made into serial killers based on the types of environments they are around as they grow up. In the case of psychopaths, they are more likely to be born serial killers rather than made due to abnormalities found in their genetic makeup. But because such a difficult question cannot be answered with both choices there must be one answer that overpowers the other. In this case, the answer that is more logically sound is that serial killers are made. Although the sociopath category of serial killers are more likely to be born, it has been proven that the environment a person is raised up in influences how they grow up to be as an adult. “Combine this faulty wiring with inconsistent, too harsh, or even downright abusive parenting that confuses the child as to what the rules are and why one should obey them, and you quickly have an out-of-control child” (Lamb, Kassandra). Either way, the actions of a serial killer, whether sociopath or psychopath, should never be simply okayed or go
There are nearly two million psychopaths in North America, and these people are not murderers. They 're our friends, lovers and co-workers. They 're outgoing and persuasive, dazzling you with charm and flattery. Often you aren 't even aware they 've taken you for a ride -- until it 's too late. Psychopaths exhibit a Jekyll and Hyde personality. "They play a part so they can get what they want," says Dr. Sheila Wilson, a Toronto psychologist who has helped victims of psychopaths (CITE). For example, the guy who showers a woman with excessive attention is much more capable of getting her to lend him money, and to put up with him when he strays along with the new employee who gains her co-workers ' trust has more access to their checkbooks. And so on. Psychopaths have no conscience and their only goal is
One trait that psychopaths have is an overblown sense of self-worth (Baker). Robert Hare, the leading specialist in psychiatry, has made a psychopathy checklist to determine if someone has psychopathic tendencies. The second trait of his list is “Inflated view of his abilities and self-worth Psychopaths
A well-known personality disorder is psychopathy. Psychopathy’s shortened term “psycho” is often used as a slang term to mean crazy. Psychopathy is a real issue caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. Psychopathic people have traits “common to some serial murderers, including sensation seeking, a lack of remorse or guilt, impulsivity, the need for control, and predatory behavior. These traits and behaviors are consistent with the psychopathic personality disorder” (Morton). Psychopathic tendencies are most common among killers. Although, “serial killers suffer from a variety of personality disorders, including psychopathy, anti-social personality, and others” (Morton). With psychopathy in a serial killer they feel they have a valid and justifiable reason for killing three or more people. With psychopathic killers feel their motives make their killing okay. Serial killers have “many other motivations for serial murders including anger, thrill, financial gain, and attention seeking” (Morton). A common motive for serial killers is revenge. They feel that someone did them wrong, much like a person who was abused as a child. They feel they have a valid excuse for murdering the person that abused them or substitutes if they find that object of their rage unreachable. Another common motive is simply anger. With anger it is more often than not that they do not have a target. They are just angry and are willing to kill anybody to cope with it. Antisocial personality disorder is often in people who show “a lack of remorse and/or guilt, shallow affect, a lack of empathy, and failure to accept responsibility” (Morton). Antisocial personality disorder is similar to psychopathic personality disorder yet, it remains different. The Behavior Analysis Unit at the Federal Bureau of Investigation stated, “Psychopathy is a personality disorder
Scientists have many theories concerning psychopaths. Scientists do not have a definite clear cut answer on what is the cause of psychopathy but they have many ideas: nature and the nurture of the person. Nature is the gene that the person carries. The nurture of the person when they were a child simply means how they were treated when they were growing up and/or how they were raised. Some scientists even consider it a possibility that it could be a mixture of the two.
The responsibilities of the servant leaders go beyond organizational goals and development of subordinates, responsibilities extend into all stakeholders, internal and external, towards the corporate and societal community (Peterson et al., 2012). The qualities reach into ethical and moral values of the CEO as a person and their reflection of the corporate entity (García-Sánchez et al., 2013). The movement between ethical and moral decisions transcend level of consciousness reflective of organizational and personal experiences; CEOs operate at lower levels of consciousness when engaging in decision involving self-fulfillment (Young, 2002). Therefore, one quality is for a CEO involves the development of a much wider and expanding view that moves away from any self-views on the spectrum of consciousness (Young, 2002). This is a difficult position for narcissistic leaders.
Depictions of psychopaths today have become exaggerated based off of what you see in movies and films. The psychopaths in movies are believed to be dangerous or have an anti-social personality disorder. Not all psychopaths can be defined in that manner. Psychopaths are identified as people who are emotionally unstable. They are ultimately suffering from a chronic mental disorder with abnormal or violent social behavior. There have been studies ultimately wondering if a psychopath is born, or is it raised? Genetics and environment combine to produce conditions that create psychopathology. By paying attention to environmental variables we can potentially reduce the amount of people who become dangerous psychopaths.
Sociopaths are able to do better in the business field because of certain traits and abilities that they have. One thing that contributes to this advantage is that these people are able to stay objective in the marketplace, and are able to see strengths and weaknesses within companies without having bias (Perry and Herrera 125). This means that sociopaths are able to do what