Many CEOs May Be Productive Narcissists
Elon Musk wants to send mankind to Mars. Back here on Earth, Mark Zuckerberg hopes to hook everyone up to the Internet—the better for them to use Facebook, of course. The two entrepreneurs have different visions of the future. Still, the fact that both men are possessed by enough self-belief to pull off world-changing feats has earned them a spot in a category of self-centered CEOs, who were first noticed by an anthropologist back at the height of the dot-com bubble. The academic calls them productive narcissists, and he thinks there may be more of them today.


