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Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work, a book by industrial psychologist Paul Babiak and psychopathy expert Robert Hare, studies characters that make their way into business organisations in spite of their psychopathic tendencies. They use the term ‘psychopath’ in its broadest sense – a manipulator of people, causing problems in psychological and emotionally abusive ways. Babiak and Hare’s thesis is that psychopathic traits can be readily mistaken for critical business values.

Consiglieri

Richard Hytner

To macho men Daddy Gus, Mama’s father, appeared to be less than masculine. He was seen as henpecked. I can remember our patriarchal father expressing contempt for Daddy Gus, calling him weak—and letting Mama know via domination that he would not be ruled by a woman.

The Will to Change

bell hooks

One of the most important consequences of incentive superpower is what I call incentive-caused bias. A man has an acculturated nature, making him a pretty decent fellow, and yet, driven both consciously and subconsciously by incentives, he drifts into immoral behavior in order to get what he wants—a result he facilitates by rationalizing his bad behavior, like the salesmen at Xerox who harmed customers in order to maximize their sales commissions.

Poor Charlie’s Almanack

Charles T. Munger, Peter D. Kaufman, John Collison, and Warren Buffett

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