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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think to get to a lot of those levels, men and women have to have a certain level of sociopathic/psychopathic behavior.  There is a lot behind the scenes that's necessary to get to that level, and you don't get there by being nice and morally right to everyone.  [/quote]

Agree. You have to be ruthless to be a CEO of a large company, for example (in addition to other things, but ruthlessness is pretty much a requirement). [/quote]

And even to get to a VP or SVP level at many Fortune 500 companies you have to be pretty ruthless. If you get that far without exploiting colleagues or treating them badly, then it’s likely you exploited your family or your household employees (wife, nanny, mother) in order to extract the time and labor needed to allow you to focus on your career progression.

It’s been interesting to watch the trajectories of my most successful business school classmates. Even people who are still my friends because of our shared history are people who I wouldn’t be friends with now. They are ruthless in their fields and have treated me in some pretty unkind or thoughtless ways over the years- but the are socially clever about it so it’s nothing I could pinpoint to an outsider.[/quote]

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