Your third paragraph is like talking about Tiger Woods without mentioning a green jacket. There’s an implicit moralizing in your stance. Why do you presume tha

Your third paragraph is like talking about Tiger Woods without mentioning a green jacket. There’s an implicit moralizing in your stance. Why do you presume that the dark triad traits you assert “””these people””” have in common are unrelated to merit? That suggests a moral, not pragmatic, stance that valorizes “the hard worker” while denigrating things like charisma, vision, boldness, and ruthless drive which, to sample your phrasing, are “trivially provable” to be essential traits of merit in leadership.