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@tayfonay @Kierkegaanks the real research that needs to happen is figuring out why the rest of us let sociopaths gain and retain organizational power.
And are there organizations that are resistant to being subverted into the personal playthings of the CEO type? And if so; what makes them different?
@laprice @tayfonay @Kierkegaanks
I have often thought about a "manager's license" that you need to be in charge of people. In the same way a driver's license includes a vision test, this would include checks for narcissism, sociopathy, and anything else where you just shouldn't have power over people.
The trick is getting it past all the people in power who would never pass the exams.
@williampietri @laprice @tayfonay @Kierkegaanks that would never work because the traits that you and I see as something they should fail the test for are the traits that get them the promotions in the first place.
@maggiejk There are challenges there, sure. But I'm not ready to give up. E.g., these are very self-centered people, and narcissists are deeply committed to a false self image ("very stable genius"). So maybe we make this only for new managers, and sell it as preserving high quality levels. If it's not a personal threat, they may not care.
@laprice @tayfonay @Kierkegaanks It seems to me that the problem comes from a system that rewards material accumulation while dismissing the validity of human emotion. Aka, patriarchal capitalism. Empathy is the source of our natural resistance against causing undue harm, direct or indirect. But we as a culture systematically break our kids, especially our boys, of the ability to respond to empathetic impulses in order to make them better at acquiring more material wealth which we call "success"
@laprice @tayfonay @Kierkegaanks
Bismarck, faced with the rise of the first gen of communism, neatly cut its legs off by proposing a simple change to boards of directors: half the seats go to stockholders and the other half go to the workers. This has the happy side effect of putting the executives in the camp of the workers, instead of jimmying the stock price.
Germany has been doing this since the 70s, Mitbestimmungsgesetz.