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30 Dec, 2011

Corporate psychopaths still occupying positions of power – Business Comment – The Independent

He then makes an astonishing confession: “At one major investment bank for which I worked, we used psychometric testing to recruit social psychopaths because their characteristics exactly suited them to senior corporate finance roles.”

Here was one of the biggest investment banks in the world seeking psychopaths as recruits.

Mr Ronson spoke to scores of psychologists about their understanding of the damage that psychopaths could do to society. None of those psychologists could have imagined, I’m sure, the existence of a bank that used the science of spotting them as a recruiting mechanism.

via Brian Basham: Beware corporate psychopaths – they are still occupying positions of power – Business Comment – Business – The Independent.