If you have seen the movie "The Corporation", you know that part of its analysis is the following: a corporation is legally considered to be a person and if you were to assess the behavior of many of these "persons" you would conclude that many of them could be clinically diagnosed as sociopaths. So says Dr. Robert Hare, the creator of the Psychopathy Checklist.
One might say that this is what can happen when people are no longer held accountable for their actions and they can hide behind an organizational structure such as incorporation.
Or you might suspect as Alan Deutschman of Fast Company does that your boss may in fact be a psychopath, or a narcissist.
Peter Carlson of the Washington Post did a write up of this article with a second half devoted to the process by which congressmen finance their cronies' pork barrel projects to the tune of $32.7 billion of taxpayer money. Oh, to be a crony!
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