Dear psychopaths, narcissists, and schizos

Labels for many a great leader, it seems after yet another interesting study.

First, the psychopaths were shown to float up in some management roles, now we receive news that narcissists can make great innovators.
Yes,  that web page has a photo of Steve Jobs. No surprise to the Valley people.

The K-landnews team decided to complete the trifecta and add schizophrenics, the normal as well as the paranoid kind. We will wait for a study to confirm our opinion. If it gets disproved that's okay too, but someone should undertake it.

In the meantime, we will not talk about Lady Maggie but ponder: is there anything we can and should do with those folks?

Can we put them on some kind of medication, keep them happy this way while we, the little guys get on with the business of surviving?

Our problem here is that we do not see any reason why, for example, we should celebrate a company that makes overpriced hardware and censors stuff in its WhateverStore, or why we should venerate leaders that destroy people.

This deficiency on our part makes us utterly unqualified for proposals to better our own lives and even less so the lives of others. Being the naive gentle losers we are, we decided to try a mini open letter.

Dear Psychopaths, Narcissists, and Schizos,

We know that one of the characteristics of your condition is the need to mess with other people's lives. So, the following request runs kind of against what you are about, you may even see our request as a challenge to overcome.

We want only the best for you, so please take your meds and leave us alone. There are enough people willing to play with you, stick with them, please.

As fellow humans, we wish you luck and riches, whatever you desire, but we are not the best of company. Proof? One of our team members once received an offer to turn her life story into a movie, and you know what she said: How can I sell you my life story when my life is really just beginning?

See, we are basket cases.

If we meet again in the workplace, we'll help you look good. Unless, of course, you really torture us, but you won't, right?

Again, good luck, and we will read that book about you and watch that movie.

We promise,
 The K-landnews team