ZT: What Corporate Climbers Can Teach Us

今天正好看到在WSJ上的这篇文章,觉得和大家讨论的很relevant, 所以转贴过来. 注意,文章有以偏盖全的倾向哦.


What Corporate Climbers Can Teach Us
'Dark' Personality Traits Can Help People Rise Through Ranks

Every office full of ambitious people has them. And we have all worked with at least one—the co-worker with an inexplicable ability to rise in the ranks. "How do they do it?" we may ask ourselves or whisper to friends at work. They don't have more experience. They don't seem that brilliant. But such co-workers may possess a dose of one of the personality traits that psychologists call the "dark triad": manipulativeness, a tendency to influence others for selfish gain; narcissism, a profound self-centeredness; or an antisocial personality, lacking in empathy or concern for others. These traits are well-known for the bad behavior that they can cause when dominant in people's personalities. At milder levels, however, they can actually foster skills that can help people rise through the ranks. For instance, people with narcissism, who want to be the center of attention, often make a good first impression on clients and bosses, says a 2014 review of more than 140 studies on people with mild, or "subclinical," levels of dark personality traits. They also can be persuasive when pitching their own ideas.

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online.wsj.com/articles/what-corporate-climbers-can-teach-us-1404862389