Can narcissistic executives be coached? Some can, under three knowable conditions: the executive must privately feel the cost of the pattern, the method must target behaviour rather than biography and measure progress through stakeholders rather than self-report, and...
How do you work for a narcissistic boss as a senior executive? Avoid the two instinctive strategies, public confrontation and silent endurance, because the first triggers retaliation and the second licenses escalation. What works is calm, boundaried usefulness:...
What should a board do about a narcissistic CEO? Diagnose the phase before the person, gather stakeholder reality independently of the CEO’s narration, act while results are still good, and choose deliberately between three options: govern the pattern, develop it...
What is a polished alpha wolf? A polished alpha wolf is a leader who keeps the full narcissistic engine (decisiveness, threat sensitivity, courage, vision) but has deliberately added the one capacity the pattern lacks: reciprocity. The unpolished alpha wolf runs the...
Talented narcissism is the productive end of the narcissistic spectrum: the combination of drive, charisma, vision and crisis composure that grows out of an early deficit in unconditional recognition, and that gives its owner a genuine head start in leadership while...
