Psychopathy

from Socially challenging in The Economist: "What makes people psychopaths is not an idle question. Prisons are packed with them. So, according to some, are boardrooms."

how about government offices I'm curious to know...

The combination of a propensity for impulsive risk-taking with a lack of guilt and shame (the two main characteristics of psychopathy) may lead, according to circumstances, to a criminal career or a business one.