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When Psychopaths Go to Work
Regan Books
May 2006
352 pages ISBN: 0060837721 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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, political command and control, and executive
succession, all while hiding within the corporate culture.
It's a must read for anyone in the business world, because
whatever level you're at, you'll learn the subtle warning
signs of psychopathic behavior and be able to protect
yourself and your company -- before it's too late.
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