Visionaries Turn into Authoritarians

This article applies to politics, and since business leaders are not elected, boards being too small a sample size, IMO, the business analogy is so-so.

> The hubris arc appears inherent in populist psychology, underscoring why constitutional constraints and institutional checks are indispensable. Democracies survive not by finding perfect leaders but by constraining imperfect ones.

And that is why constitutional constraints and institutional checks are under fierce attack.

"Part of this shift is a psychological process we term the hubris arc. This sees a visionary leader become increasingly myopic once in office. Their early successes bolster their belief in their transformative capabilities, which gradually diminishes their capacity for self-criticism."

I think we see this hubris arc sometimes in coworkers. The brilliant jerk type.

Sounds like Lecture 19 - https://oyc.yale.edu/sociology/socy-151