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Re:Culture Change at Google by selfawareMammal on Friday January 19, 2024 @02:26AM (#39052593)
After being in multiple orgs and having been in touch with c-suite, I have suspicions that lack of total empathy and psychopathic tendencies are a must to get to really high social-based positions.
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Re:Culture Change at Google by saiya-jin on Friday January 19, 2024 @03:15AM (#39052914)
They are practically a must just to get there... to thrive in this 'layer' of society, a person is quite far away from regular average human in various worst ways possible
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Re:Culture Change at Google by treprinum on Friday January 19, 2024 @01:04PM (#39058825)
I know headhunters that specialize in identifying highly functioning sociopaths for leadership roles. But experiencing total dehumanization of others first-hand and subsequent rise of that person is something one never forgets.
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