by Arvid Buit | Jul 30, 2026 | Leadership Blog
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...
by Arvid Buit | Jul 30, 2026 | Leadership Blog
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...
by Arvid Buit | Jul 30, 2026 | Leadership Blog
Narcissism and Leadership: The Executive’s Field Guide By Arvid Buit. Based on two decades of C-suite coaching practice and the research conducted with clinical psychologist Martin Appelo for Red de Alfawolf (Boom, ISBN 9789024422753) and the business novel Wahlberg...
by Arvid Buit | Jul 26, 2026 | Blog, Leadership Blog
Succession almost never fails in the plan. It fails in the founder who wrote it. I have sat in enough of these rooms to know the shape of the thing before anyone speaks. The document is excellent. There is a timeline, a governance structure, a shareholders’...
by Arvid Buit | Jul 26, 2026 | Blog, Leadership Blog
The better someone is at the second job, the less likely they are ever to be handed the first. That is not bad luck, and it is not a failure of talent-spotting. It is the mechanism working exactly as designed, and almost nobody in the building will say it out loud —...
by Arvid Buit | Jul 26, 2026 | Blog, Leadership Blog
Nobody in that room is listening to your plan. They are listening for whether you intend to replace what they lost. That is the whole of it. You have prepared a hundred-day plan, and it is probably a good one — market read, cost lines, the three initiatives you would...
