WHAT PSYCHOPATHS TEACH US ABOUT HOW TO SUCCEED

There is no doubt that surviving and being successful in the work environment has been tough since the level of  competition amongst individuals has reached its peak .In order to make  unprecedented progress in business life, a person should have some qualifications which enable him/her to surpass his/her colleagues. As individuals who rank high in the hierarchy in companies encounter various types of challenging situations and deal with employees from different walks of life, they have to adopt distinct traits which allow them to find a way compatible with the requirements of the circumstances. That is why, As far as I am concerned, the administrators of both international or local companies should have various positive and negative characteristics to be able to achieve their aims.

         To begin with, I believe the positive hallmarks which each and every  administrator  ought to have are determination, fearlessness, and focus. The combination of these three characteristics brings about success. Along with fearlessness, determination is one of the important traits in business life since there are a host of obstacles which prevent people from reaching their goals. For example, people in quest of profit and success tend to adopt deviant behaviors so as to intimidate their rivals and force them to give up but if one has enough determination to take  action and to persist in this action, s/he can easily overcome the hurdles emerging as a result of competition. The second trait is the ability to focus entirely on an undertaken duty. Most administrators are capable of continuing to work on the tasks that have  utmost importance and their obsessions are their main incentives which compel them to completely and successfully finish their duty.

          Secondly, there are negative characteristics that are useful and feasible in business life, but that are regarded as psychopathic hallmarks detrimental to not only a person having these but also others with whom they interact. The administrators differ from other workers who they employed  in that they have aforementioned traits which give a chance to them to promote and rise in the hierarchy. It goes without saying that controlling and leading a group is tough because in the presence of problems and conflicts people tend to quit and slack off their duties. In order to eliminate these problems and conflicts, an administrator sometimes has to be ruthless since s/he has to explain the importance of the tasks which they undertake and how they should do that.

To sum up, we are not aware of it at first but from the aforementioned arguments we can easily see that apart from the positive hallmarks, administrators should have some negative characteristics in order to keep employees efficiently working and to be good at their jobs.

Ali Alp Gürer Preintermediate Remedial