...to be successful in business? Here's an interesting article about your boss, the potential psychopath:

...cynics might say that it can be an advantage to lack a conscience. That's probably why major investors installed Dunlap as the CEO of Sunbeam: He had no qualms about decimating the workforce to impress Wall Street. One reason outside executives get brought into troubled companies is that they lack the emotional stake in either the enterprise or its people. It's easier for them to act callously and remorselessly, which is exactly what their backers want. The obvious danger of the new B-Scan test for psychopathic tendencies is that companies will hire or promote people with high scores rather than screen them out. Even Babiak, the test's codeveloper, says that while "a high score is a red flag, sometimes middle scores are okay. Perhaps you don't want the most honest and upfront salesman."

Look up a guy named Sam Vaknin on the internet. He's written numerous articles on the existence of pathological narcissists and psychopaths in the work place.

The Scriptures scoped this out a long time ago, observing that a rich man has less chance getting past the pearly gates than a camel through the eye of a needle.

Not to turn this into a thread on biblical interpretation, but I believe I've read that the "eye of a needle" reference is to a gate then in existence in Jerusalem known as The Eye of the Needle because it was so small. A laden pack camel had to be unloaded, and made to traverse the gate on its knees.

It was possible -- just a great deal of trouble.

Sounds like this interpretation pointed to a divestiture of riches.

One thing I wonder about is whether such tests will help given the overall risk-adverse, unaccountable environment of many businesses, government agencies, or not-for-profits. After all, I suspect in many cases, the psychopathic (er, in the sense used in the article) executives were put in place by other psychopaths. Like sponsoring like. Tests without accountability would just make it easier to find accomplices for looting the company.