In every company I've ever worked for, there was at least one sociopath in a senior management role.
Some were screamers. Some were smarmy and manipulative. Some were just miserable. Many were narcissistic. Almost all were control freaks.
One memorably awful ex-colleague was a brilliant woman who broke sales records every year. But she chewed through people like a lawn mower.
She approached meetings like flies approach their meal. For those not up on entomology, flies vomit on food before ...