New York Magazine has an excellent piece on organizational psychology, fitting the right personalities with the right roles, and what makes managers successful. One nugget:

In the same vein, another researcher reports that one law firm deconstructs its HR needs by personality traits. It insists on extremely bright employees who are also extremely insecure. “They want them to think that working really hard matters,” he explains.

Here’s the short version: managers shouldn’t be narcissistic assholes, except when they should.

As an aside, New York Magazine seems to have one or two awesome pieces a month, and then the rest is only OK. Once they get up to 3 or 4, I’m going to become a regular reader (and maybe a subscriber).

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