但是并不是说，大量使用这些“阴暗面”品质会使一个人成为伟大领导。
"Organizations should take these 'dark side' traits into account when making decisions concerning training and promotion," Prof Harms said. The 12 negative traits under the Hogan Development Survey are volatility, mistrustfulness, cautiousness, detachment, passivity, aggressiveness, arrogance, manipulativeness, being overdramatic, eccentricity, perfectionism and dependency.
哈姆斯教授说：“一些组织在进行培训和提拔职员的时候应该考虑到这些‘阴暗面’品质。霍根发展调查方法测试出来的12个负面特征是反复无常、疑心重、谨慎小心、超然、顺从、攻击性、傲慢、 强烈控制欲、过度戏剧化、怪癖、完美主义和依赖性。