Snakes in Suits: Understanding Workplace Psychopaths - Business Psychology Book for Corporate Professionals & Managers
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Let's say you're about to hire somebody for a position in your company. Your corporation wants someone who's fearless, charismatic, and full of new ideas. Candidate X is charming, smart, and has all the right answers to your questions. Problem solved, right? Maybe not. We'd like to think that if we met someone who was completely without conscience - someone who was capable of doing anything at all if it served his or her purposes - we would recognize it. In popular culture, the image of the psychopath is of someone like Hannibal Lecter or the BTK Killer. But in reality, many psychopaths just want money, or power, or fame, or simply a nice car. Where do these psychopaths go? Often, it's to the corporate world. Researchers Paul Babiak and Robert Hare have long studied psychopaths. Hare, the author of Without Conscience, is a world-renowned expert on psychopathy, and Babiak is an industrial-organizational psychologist. Recently the two came together to study how psychopaths operate in corporations, and the results were surprising. They found that it's exactly the modern, open, more flexible corporate world, in which high risks can equal high profits, that attracts psychopaths. They may enter as rising stars and corporate saviors, but all too soon they're abusing the trust of colleagues, manipulating supervisors, and leaving the workplace in shambles. Snakes in Suits is a compelling, frightening, and scientifically sound look at exactly how psychopaths work in the corporate environment: what kind of companies attract them, how they negotiate the hiring process, and how they function day by day. You'll learn how they apply their "instinctive" manipulation techniques - assessing potential targets, controlling influential victims, and abandoning those no longer useful - to business processes such as hiring
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Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to WorkThis book is a must read for each member of the American workforce. According to the authors, most people who go to work are honest, law-abiding individuals. They try hard to make a living. By doing their jobs, they endeavor to contribute to society while raising their children and nurturing their families. However, there are others who are the extreme opposite. They are brutally selfish, calculating, and abusive. Their desire to work is fueled by unimaginable possibilities of unlimited power, control, status, success, and startling proportions of wealth. In their pursuit of so called success, these folks choose to crush all moral and ethical human values. Their insatiable greed forces them to inflict irreparable harm to others; they derail careers; they extinguish careers; and they destroy lives of their many innocent coworkers. They never ever feel a sense of shame and/or of guilt for their evil and deceptive deeds. On the contrary, human suffering and pain that they induce in other peoples' lives gives them a sense of control and power as well as gratification over what they can create. This is a group of people we call psychopaths, workplace bullies, and workplace manipulators. Psychopaths have anti-social personality disorder. They do not have conscience and this fact alone gives them an advantage over normal human beings who are restricted and limited within the bounds of conscience. The premise of this book by Babiak & Hare (2007) is that most of the psychopaths are not behind bars but right amongst us as coworkers and bosses. They generally thrive at workplace and manage to attain positions of power and status. Their destructive personality traits are usually invisible to most people who come in contact with them because of the thick mask (s) they wear. However, individuals who are armed with knowledge of this personality disorder will have no problem seeing through their mask (s) and thus identifying them & recognizing their hidden true selves. In about 300 pages, the authors discuss the many subtle and insidious tactics of these criminals. They also provide live examples and workplace scenarios. The reading of this book will not only help you see the workplace chaos these criminals craft but also help you restore your peace of mind, and offer you tips on guarding yourself against the very malicious attacks of psychopaths. I would also encourage you to visit the websites of workplace Bullying Institute & Bullyfree Work. And please do see Dr. G. Namie on youtube. You will feel empowered.
