Companies must guard against psychopaths eroding their
ethics – and even destroying the business.
Psychopathy is one of the most treacherous personality
disorders. Over 200 years of clinical research and forensic
observations have produced a definition of psychopathic personality
that involves a constellation of interpersonal, affective,
lifestyle and antisocial traits and behaviours.
Psychopaths have unimpaired intellectual functions, which allow
them to skilfully manipulate and mislead others. They usually hide
behind a façade of charming and sincere friend, leaving a
long-lasting first impression of a character too grand to resist.
As master manipulators and pathological liars, they find behaving
in a misleading way relatively easy.
