The gleaming facade of charismatic leadership often masks a more insidious reality: the narcissistic leader who charms, manipulates, and ultimately devastates organizations from within. While narcissism has long been recognized as a personality trait, its prevalence in corporate and political spheres has reached epidemic proportions in recent decades.
This surge of self-aggrandizing figureheads presents a paradox – their magnetic personalities and grandiose visions initially galvanize followers, but their toxic behaviors inevitably corrode the very foundations they claim
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