2000 to 2005 I worked in Private Equity, managing Trusts & Estates for Asset Preservation. We managed about 150 portfolios under 20M. The managing partner had me read The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick, and wanted to impress, that our systems and who we worked with, were secure, and that our firm's risk assessment, would be based on the strength of the employees, and who would be vulnerable to social engineering vs not.
My adopted family is HNW, and the family trust is UHNW, albeit they're the bottom percent of people who are UHNW, which my grandmother spoke about often. My entire life, I was trained in security, and relationships with others. Vulnerabilities with systems, can be secured. Vulnerabilities with people, are more about an archetype, and while they can be trained, modified, improved, to me, it actually does come down to Nature + Nurture + Associates + Life Experiences. There are risk assessments with people, and predictable outcomes based on stress they're going through.
My family, taught top down, which is typical teaching for high intelligence, which they are. They though, are isolated in their wealth, and also insulated in their religion. When I was training in college studying Applied Behaviorism, we worked with ASD bottom-up. I related to this training, as it was like baseball. When I won state as Starting Center for our JV Softball team, I was initially cut, then had to work exceptionally hard all season, to get Starting Center, and only for a few games at the end. With finance and security, strength builds, and is bottom-up, to me. Little mistakes, can create consuming and costly audits further on. Little slips, can open up a person or firm, to breach. Never worth it.
When it comes to people who are trustworthy or not, I always interview based on values, ethics, and utilize body language analysis and micro-expressions as taught by FBI Security Trainers, and Dr. Ekman. My companies never had the problems other firms do, based on due diligence and screening.
All corporate problems are people problems. A strong company, has no place for Narcissism, whatsoever. Does not matter if they're glib, because the place they come from, matters, and NPD is black & white thinkers who are retaliatory, and ultimately out for themselves, without an internal sense of anything eusocial for good. Narcissists thrive in organized crime. In healthy companies, they destroy that which is good.
All healthy companies, do have healthy competition. They do NOT have bullying, nor narcissism, nor any form of social engineering or espionage. They are trained in awareness, prevention, protection.
Individuals and companies are healthy, when their team is healthy, balanced, safe, and stimulated. This is the correct foundation for anything worthwhile, with longevity and profits.
