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"Allowing a corporate leader to overstay his or her useful time at the top is harmful. Some leaders can change, and develop an acquired personality disorder, after wielding power.   Stefan Stern, Financial Times writer ft.com, 22 November 2013 Much damage can be done to a business, and much value destroyed, by the wrong chief executive. But allowing a corporate leader to overstay his or her useful time at the to...

"We explore why narcissists perform Counter-productive Work Behaviour and offer advice regarding what organizations can do to avoid it. We (also) discuss narcissism's relationship with leadership effectiveness, and propose the Narcissistic Leaders and Dominance Complementarity Model E Grijalva, Psychology, University of Illinois P Harms, Management, University of Nebraska The Academy of Management Perspectives March 27, 2013 a...

"There is a dark side to power, which derives from its mind-changing effects on the people who hold it. The group looked for words, phrases and patterns of language use that changed consistently as the years spent in power increased.   Peter Garrard, Reader in Neurology at St George’s, University of London The Conversation, 26 November 2013 The author’s neuroscience group looked for words, phrases and patter...

"...how does a nation or company avoid the dangers of tone-deaf leaders? It's as simple as making finite the time that leaders spend close to power's flame. In other words: term limits.   Ian Mount, CNN Money Fortune 1 November 2013 It is a leadership truism that CEOs and presidents are arrogant psychopaths. Recent studies have found that half of US Presidents experienced some kind of mental illness, with many of...

"Some of the world’s worst cock-ups could be said to be caused by individuals who allow power to inflate their egos to Hindenburg proportions. Consider the Iraq war, the banking fiasco, Miley Cyrus’s VMA performance.   Rachel Salvidge, Feminist Times.com, 2 October 2013 Some of the world’s worst cock-ups could be said to be caused by individuals who allow power to inflate their egos to Hindenburg proportio...

..."the brilliant men who ran the company ignored the simple banking rules that their predecessors learned the hard way three centuries before.."     Ray Perm...