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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says empathy isn't a soft skill — it's actually 'the hardest skill we learn'::Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talked about the importance of empathy as a skill in the business world while accepting the Axel Springer Award in Berlin.

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Microsoft ceo + empathy doesn't seem right

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Almost any CEO + empathy doesn’t seem right.

At least 20% of people in executive positions are psychopaths. Literally psychopaths. Not sociopaths, full on psychos.

I can almost guarantee that the Venn diagram of psychopaths and executives at Fortune 500 companies is a circle.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Flawed study. Real psychos/socios know never to reveal the truth and lie until the music stops.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, but isn't that what CEOs do?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This, and sometimes they have to dance, too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Stupid sexy Balmer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If we're going to be accurate, both psychopathy and sociopathy aren't recognized as clinically diagnosable conditions. The things we think of as psychopathy and sociopathy are part of a spectrum of personality disorders. Basically the same reason we don't fall people with down syndrome mongoloids anymore. It's inaccurate and stigmatizing. Not to say that CEOs aren't terrible, they are

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Just to be a little more specific, those traits are part of what's known as the dark triad, which include psychopathy, narcissism, and machiavellianism. These traits are generally related to cluster B personality disorders, among which antisocial personality disorder has the strongest correlation with psychopathy.

https://www.fortunejournals.com/articles/exploring-the-dark-side-relationships-between-the-dark-triad-traits-and-cluster-b-personality-disorder-features.html

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