In "Night of the Living Dead", Ronson meets with a man named Al Dunlap, who was a former CEO of a large company. Dunlap had previously worked for another company, going around firing employees. He then began working for Sunbeam Toasters, and eventually became CEO. Throughout Ronson’s meeting with him, he begins to take note of the psychopathic characteristics that Dunlap has. He meets a good portion of the criteria that Hare put on the psychopathic checklist.
I thought these chapters were really interesting. I had been wondering when Ronson would mention the CEO’s that were questionable psychopaths, and I was glad he addressed that. I can see how a majority of CEO’s and people with other powerful positions could be questionable psychopaths, because they share a lot of the same traits as Dunlap. As a CEO, one has to be comfortable with firing people and disciplining them, they have to be aggressive to have their companies succeed, and they have to have a certain lack of empathy because of the competitive nature of their industry. So it could be fairly easy to detect a really powerful and successful CEO as a psychopath. I also found the story of Charlotte very interesting, how she had to find people that were “mad enough” to be on the TV show she worked for.
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