Was I a typical narcissist / office powerpath ?

Question

My job was to replace old systems by new.

I would replace new systems upon new systems as one by one they will fail.

In hindsight, 5 systems later, maybe the original was the best. But too much water would have gone down the bridge by that time.

Top management would support me in imposing a "new" horribly inefficient system to replace an existing better system.
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Answer 1

Hard to say. Depends on the motivation. With pathalogical narcissism, the goal is usually creating/preserving a false image of one's self, to maintain the image that one is somehow better than most people. This is done so the person doesn't have to face the deep down ugly feeling that they are somehow defective or unlovable, which is intolerable.
If you were really trying to help your company or just trying to do your job this is one thing. But if it was done out of a "i can do this so much better than these stupid people" kind of an attitude then, yeah, it's narcissism. The motivation may also be a combination of both.

Answer 2

Your a little eichman, well beneath narcissist as you lack an ego. Learn your creed dude!

Otto Adolf Eichmann (known as Adolf Eichmann; March 19, 1906 – June 1, 1962) was a high-ranking Nazi and SS Obersturmbannführer (equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel). Due to his organizational talents and ideological reliability, he was charged by Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich with the task of facilitating and managing the logistics of mass deportation to ghettos and extermination camps in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe. After the war, he traveled to Argentina using a fraudulently obtained laissez-passer issued by the International Red Cross and lived there under a false identity. He was captured by Israeli Mossad agents in Argentina and tried in Israeli court on fifteen criminal charges, including crimes against humanity and war crimes. He was convicted and hanged.