Executive narcissism affects knowledge transfer among business units
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> Dr Liu offered two theories as to why narcissism stands in the way of knowledge transfer: One, narcissistic unit heads may strongly believe that they have a superior knowledge stock, compared to executives in other units, and understand their unit’s problems better – leading them to believe others’ knowledge is less valuable. The second theory is that these executives may believe that knowledge transfer may diminish their sense of superiority and uniqueness, leading them to decline to receive external knowledge in an attempt to preserve their image.
If you're worried you might have narcissitic tendencies, don't worry too much: a real narcissist would never entertain such a notion.
this is literally not true, research indicates narcissists know they are narcissistic
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beautiful-minds/2011...
There's an anecdote about a professor telling his students on the first day of a Psychology class, "some things about this field are obvious common sense — for instance, a baby won't recognize and prefer more attractive people as they're unaware of beauty standards."
The class all agrees, and the professor says "JK, babies actually do! Welcome to Psychology."
In the case of the Earth, this means you are repulsed toward the Earth by the weight of the column of space "above" you, and are only prevented from falling through the Earth by its density. The Earth is relatively equally displaced by the column surrounding it, meaning you do not notice this effect.
Gravity seems to come in waves because all things in the relevant column are moving, but the shifting of mass is almost unimportant to your perception because it is such a small value. The magnitude and frequency is such that it goes unnoticed to all but the most sensitive equipment.
.... completely no evidence available, but, it sounds kind of reasonable.
>prevented from falling through the Earth
>Gravity seems to come in waves
>the shifting of mass is almost unimportant to your perception [...] unnoticed to all but the most sensitive equipment.
It doesn't make sense when you don't need an answer at that time. If you can find evidence, you should.
After a bit of classroom discussion, from which I abstained, the professor threw the book in the trash (clang! it was a metal trashcan) and gave a speech about how the analysis was gibberish, and how you can't just make up stuff about what a story says. He then walked us through how you might actually obtain useful insights about what the story means to say. It was apparent he gave that spiel every semester.
I'm glad I stayed; it was a good class.
- write code
- lie in bed from my motorcycle accident
And my code is currently compiling.
But your links are interesting nonetheless.
Coming from a tech background which promotes algorithmic thinking, I have been more than humbled when trying to apply such conceptual frameworks to biological systems at my current job.
Maybe I'll share some code at some point.
Your simulations sound fascinating.
I'm reaching here but maybe some old HP hands can chime in - what sort of people did the original HP attract? I'm guessing like attracts like.
"HP's founders were very remarkable people at all levels, starting with Bill and Dave."
https://hpmemoryproject.org/timeline/stories/Bill&DaveStory1...
Possibly the fish rots from the head? Model that.
The complexity is brutal because of the star pattern (n! connections) but one thing about the star pattern is that it's an unweighted graph. When all of the weights are identical, that's the textbook definition of anarchy. Of course everything is a mess. Everyone is trying to be in charge while half of them are also trying not to be in charge and still get their way.
First, I don't think you can measure candidates' "narcissism".
Second, if a narcissist executive gets hired, it might because he/she has other advantages over other less-narcissist candidates.
If not they'll still claim they do.
Not disclosing knowledge because it's your leverage. Or not leveraging the knowledge internally because you're "too important" to learn from your people.
Leaders typically demonstrate narcissistic traits to some extent. Whether that's ambition or incentive driven.
Almost to the point of a SNAFU / FUBAR situation when a leader with these traits are backed into a corner or didn't get their way so they aren't willing to comply.
1. A willingness to spend more time & effort solving people problems rather than technical problems
2. A comfort with making decisions with a much lower degree of understanding of the facts than an engineer typically would
3. A knack for rallying lots and lots of people in the face of tough situations (bad quarters, customer escalations, cross-functional dysfunction)
4. A talent for public speaking and presentations
>>The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to privacy or ethical restrictions.
hoo-boy.