Pssst, my boss does not know about this post.
Science has finally caught up with the knowledge the downtrodden have held for centuries.
According to a recent study that made headline news, bosses, CEOs, have a higher rate of psychopaths among them than the general population.
What the news did not say is: we believe this to be true also for many, many other great leaders. Great is not a value judgement here, all it means is that history books and websites list them as great.
The team at the K-Landnews has discussed two obvious questions from these findings:
1) What can we do with the findings, is there any practical use?
2) How long before another study comes out and contradicts this one?
The answer to question 2 is we do not know. We do know that we all have had moments when we finally accepted a scientific study as a launch point for change to some habit or other - only to open the papers the next day and find it squarely contradicted.
For fans of conspiracy theories, here is a starting point for another one: the list of the 10 professions with above average psychopath levels includes some with lots of money, some with a lot of influence, hence, how about "they are already busy deflecting the findings and discrediting the study". If you don't like this one, you'll have to find a conspiracy angle yourself, we don't do conspiracies very well at the K-Landnews, sorry.
The answer to question 1 includes "write a post about it". We are more than halfway through the post and still at a loss. Further suggestions in the newsroom included "instigate a campaign to get the South Park dream team to do an episode on this".
That one was shot down immediately: Come on, is there *any* episode of South Park without a psycho boss?
Another associate said: Write a human interest story about personal experiences with a psychopath boss.
That one was dunked with: Might just as well suggest a story about the Earth not being flat, nobody wants any more of that.
Slowly, reluctantly, TheEditor caved in and resumed its* search for more useless but fun puns in the daily avalanche of internet information.
* TheEditor insists on gender neutrality. Mainly to tick people off.
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