Deadlines Are Killing Us, and Almost Everything Else I Know About Leadership

In this context, it’s basically a narcissist, someone who consistently puts their own personal, short-sighted needs in front of the other humans around them and in front of the best interests of the organizations that they are a part of, which includes the employer that pays their salary or wage. When I write about narcissists below, I’m referring to people with various shades of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) or similar clusters of change-resistant personality features. Since it’s almost impossible to create organizations with control groups, the narcissistic leader’s own leader has no effective way of personally assessing how much performance is being left on the table due to those being led by the narcissist feeling terrified and demoralized.

Source: medium.com