CONTROLLING - Both Overt and Covert Narcissists attempt to control the realities of those above them, their peers, and their followers or those below them by acting as gate keepers of all communication and information. Narcissists know that perception is reality and they know how to manage and manipulate others perceptions via the control of interactions, information, and communication between parties. Narcissists typically “insert” themself between themself and other communicating parties to control perceptions. Given they stage manage their whole life and reality it is not surprising they invest in this micro-managing behaviour of others. Deep inside, all narcissists fear being uncovered and exposed, and also judged and criticized, and so by “tracking” and controlling all communication, and altering that communication and resulting perception, they stay in control, and maintain their “marionette” or puppet like control of others realities about them-self, others, and events. This is a critical function of narcissists who feel they must work one-on-one with those around them in a manipulative fashion, and prevent a “bigger picture”, or comparison of versions of events being shared across stakeholders. It is often only after narcissists are uncovered and exposed, do “sidekicks”, peers and those above them come to realise how they have been deceived and manipulated in this way, often for some period of time. Narcissists also cultivate “sidekicks” into becoming informers for them as part of managing the flow of information and events, as their paranoid reality sees everyone as a potential threat of uncovering their false reality. Narcissists denounce critics as being envious of them and their achievements.
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Any gatekeepers seen my puppy?
Three old men stood at the pearly gates. The gatekeeper asked the first man "How many times have you cheated on your wife."
The first man said "I was married for 50 years and I never cheated on my wife."
The gatekeeper gave the man a Rolls Royce to drive across the bridge into heaven. Then he asked the second man "How many times have you cheated on your wife?"
The second man said "I was married for 50 years and I cheated on my wife one time." So the gatekeeper gave him a Honda and he started off across the bridge into heaven. Then he asked the last man "How many times have you cheated on your wife"
The last man said I was married for 50 years and I cheated on my wife 5 times.
The gatekeeper gave the man a Pinto and the man started across the bridge.
A while down the road the man in the Pinto and the man in the Honda saw the Rolls Royce pulled off to the side of the road with the driver standing beside it crying. more...
Has the gatekeeper seen my puppy?
Gatekeepers Are The Key To Good Governance
The last few years vividly illustrate a fundamental problem with the way our system of corporate governance operates: Shareholders own a corporation’s assets; management, overseen by a board of directors, acts as a steward over those assets; yet most shareholders have neither the ability nor the resources to effectively exercise their rights to nominate and elect their boards’ members. This structure creates economic incentives for managers to focus on their own interests and neglect those of shareholders.
There is another set of participants, however, who play a significant role in helping to correct this imbalance. They are the intermediaries, often called “gatekeepers,” who provide important services that benefit investors–for instance, credit rating agencies that evaluate a company’s creditworthiness, outside auditors who provide independent assurance that its financial condition is portrayed fairly, and securities analysts who assess its business prospects. They play crucial roles in our capital markets because they are far better equipped to gather information about companies than most investors, and their investors trust and rely on them. When their independence and integrity become compromised, market confidence suffers.
One of the most important roles gatekeepers must play is as a check on management’s tendency to focus on short-term profits at the expense of long-term shareholder value. After all, although auditors work for issuers and report to management, investors rely on them to objectively assess a company’s financial statements. Similarly, securities analysts need to provide disinterested assessments of a company’s prospects not unduly influenced by their firms’ investment banking activities. And it is critical that credit rating agencies, though frequently compensated by the issuers they rate, ensure that they are free of conflicts of interest that could affect their ratings’ independence.
There will always be a tendency, particularly when times are good, for senior management to listen to those who generate profits rather than those who caution against excessive risk taking. This tension heightens the importance of gatekeeper independence. Consider the role credit rating agencies played in the 2008 market crisis. Underwriters packaged risky subprime loans into products that carried top credit ratings issued by the leading credit rating agencies. Those investments were advertised as a way to diversify and thus reduce risk, while their true risks were often poorly understood and far greater than their credit ratings suggested. Credit rating agencies thus may have facilitated excessive risk taking by management, much to the detriment of shareholders.
The proper functioning of our capital markets depends on good corporate governance–and good corporate governance depends on gatekeepers who serve directors and investors with honesty and integrity.