You surely know one or even several such people for whom empathy and compassion seem to be a foreign word. And yet it is not uncommon for this type of person to get through life more successfully and usually reach higher and influential positions at work. Experts call this mix of narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy the “dark triad”. The three specific personality disorders often occur in everyday professional life among executives who, through their unscrupulousness and prioritizing their own goals and needs over those of their fellow men, literally free themselves the way to high career positions. In this part of the series of articles, this time the focus is on the characteristics of the narcissism walk. What exactly does the term “dark triad” mean? Before I get into this article, however, narcissism and in order to include the first of the three personality disorders, I would like to begin…

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