Posted: Aug 10, 2011 7:00 pm
mrjonno wrote:I would have thought you would need a high degree of empathy (ie putting yourself in another position) to succeed in business but thats absolutely nothing to do with being selfish or selfless. Understanding someone needs means you can either help a person or screw money out of them in other words empathy is morally neutral
In a recent issue of Focus, the BBC's science mag had a study which found one in twenty five people in the business world were psychopaths, four times higher than the general population.
