15Recognising potentially dysfunctional personalities
The behaviour of certain prominent executives around and before the financial crash of 2008, and probably that of others from our own experience, indicates that there exist seriously dysfunctional personalities which cannot be readily associated with a single Big Five dimension. There appears to be a burgeoning public interest in such personalities which has generated publications with some evocative titles; e.g. Snakes in suits: When psychopaths go to work,1 Personality and the fate of organisations.2 At a slightly earlier date, we had the conceptualisation of ‘The Dark Triad’3 of ‘offensive ...
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