Narcissistic leadership

Narcissistic leadership is a common form of leadership. The narcissism may be healthy or destructive although there is a continuum between the two. A study published in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin suggests that when a group is without a leader, you can often count on a narcissist to take charge. Researchers found that people who score high in narcissism tend to take control of leaderless groups.

There are four basic types of leader with narcissists most commonly in type 3 although they may be in type 1:
 * 1) authoritarian with task orientated decision making
 * 2) democratic with task orientated decision making
 * 3) authoritarian with emotional decision making
 * 4) democratic with emotional decision making

Michael Maccoby stated about narcissistic leaders "psychoanalysts dont usually get close enough to them, especially in the workplace, to write about them".

Impact of healthily narcissistic v destructively narcissistic managers
Lubit compared healthily narcissistic managers versus destructively narcissistic managers for their long-term impact on organizations.

Corporate narcissism
Corporate narcissism occurs when a narcissist becomes the leader (CEO) or a member of the senior management team and gathers an adequate mix of codependents around him (or her) to support his narcissistic behavior. This leads almost inevitably to a deterioration in the organization's performance. Narcissists profess company loyalty but are only really committed to their own agendas, thus organization decisions are founded on the narcissists' own interests rather than the interests of the organization as a whole, the various stakeholders, or the environment in which the organization operates.