maybe not an exact match, but the "dark triad" traits are shown to be effective for individual career progress, but negatively correlated to organizational perf

maybe not an exact match, but the "dark triad" traits are shown to be effective for individual career progress, but negatively correlated to organizational performance. Harvard Business Review did an article ("Why Bad Guys Win at Work") about a few relevant pieces of research in this vein: https://hbr.org/2015/11/why-bad-guys-win-at-work https://hbr.org/2015/11/why-bad-guys-win-at-work