Arrogant Bosses Derail Their Own Careers, Researcher Says
An industrial psychologist who spent four years researching arrogance in the workplace says bosses displaying the trait will derail their own careers.
Stanley Silverman, a dean at the University of Akron, led a research team that developed an arrogance scale based on 26 measures of performance, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. He learned that arrogant businesspeople are masking their own insecurities.
Workers who work with arrogant people tend to leave the companies, he said, and arrogant bosses don’t keep their jobs. “It’s just a matter of when,” Silverman told the Plain Dealer. “Nobody is irreplaceable.”
But does the research apply to law firms? The Plain Dealer interviewed April Miller Boise, vice president and general counsel of Veyance Technologies. She said she has seen arrogance drive success in certain fields—including the law.
“I sometimes hear people complain about people who are arrogant,” Boise said. “But when you look at their trajectory and career path, often those people are successful. … They carry themselves with confidence, and therefore people assume they’re successful.”
Hat tip to Pat’s Papers.
