Don Hambrick and Arijit Chatterjee of Penn State University have developed a test to determine how narcissistic a CEO is. Apparently, although their companies see more extreme gains and losses, there’s no overall advantage to a company in having a narcissist in charge, as overall their bottom lines are not higher or lower than those of non-narcissist CEOs.
Read the article about it in Forbes magazine here – don’t miss the link to "In Pictures: Identifying The Narcissistic CEO" as this tells you what the test consists of.
Identifying The Narcissistic CEO