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True, and the "first person singular = narcissism" equation that this makes struck me as strongly inappropriate. With this metric, a CEO who takes personal resp
by parennoob 11y ago
True, and the "first person singular = narcissism" equation that this makes struck me as strongly inappropriate. With this metric, a CEO who takes personal responsibility (e.g. "I instructed the finance department to do X, and I'm sorry about that but it is a necessity for reasons Y and Z") is going to be identified as a narcissist compared to the one who hides behind words weasel words like ("We architected and rolled out a brand new program, which we hope you will like very much (not)").
If that is your measure of narcissism, then it's fine -- but it should probably be called something else. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the first CEO in the above example was more successful than the second.
- quietplatypus 11y agoWe have to keep up with the game. There's a recent (maybe not lol) prevalence of narcisstic people who love to avoid using personal pronouns and turn up the false objectivity.
- WalterSear 11y agoAs a former psychology researcher, I would hazard, that like any decent, published, study, they validated their measurements before using them. Minutiae like this is often missed in the press description.
- philh 11y agoIf you (or anyone) happens to have journal access and feel like checking, this seems to be the paper: http://asq.sagepub.com/content/52/3/351.abstract http://asq.sagepub.com/content/52/3/351.abstract It's not mentioned in the abstract either, but I don't know whether we'd expect it to be.
- WalterSear 11y agoIt's not usually mentioned there. The length of the abstract is usually limited by the publishing journal - it can often be as little as 100-150 words.
- dear 11y agoWhen taking credits, use "I". It's called leadership. When admitting mistake, use "we". Teamwork you know.