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NPD Symptoms

  1. grandiosity / exaggeration
  2. fantastic thinking / romantic
  3. believes special / unique
  4. requires admiration
  5. entitled / demanding
  6. exploitive / manipulative
  7. lacks empathy
  8. envious / jealous
  9. arrogant / haughty

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Productive Narcissist

Narcissist can be good leaders?

Michael Maccoby sees the productive narcissistic leaders - Lincoln, Reagan, FDR and Obama - as inspirational. They can also be destructive.

View his talk to google personnel on youtube.

Moccoby's book: Narcissistic Leaders: Who Succeeds and Who Fails.

Introduction to the book here

Excerpt, chapter "Recognizing Personality Types" here

Narcissists want to be leaders it has been found in studies. here

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