Snakes in Suits, Revised Edition: Understanding and Surviving the Psychopaths in Your Office

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Dr. Paul Babiak Dr. Robert D. Hare

Snakes in Suits, Revised Edition

Understanding and Surviving the Psychopaths in Your Office

Dr. Paul Babiak, Dr. Robert D. Hare

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Harper Business
19 September 2019

Occupational & industrial psychology; Organisational theory & behaviour; Office & workplace; Working patterns & practices

Dr. Robert Hare has devoted more than three decades of his professional career to the investigation of the psychopath and how psychopathic behavior influences and corrupts society. The psychopath is destructive, sleazy, manipulative, and often the cause of crime and abuse on the street, in the home, and in the workplace. There is no doubt that everyone has come in contact and possibly been deceived by a psychotic personality. In fact, most disturbingly, it’s the nature of a psychopath to intially come across as very appealing and likable. How do you defend yourself against such a person in the workplace

In Snakes in Suits, industrial and corporate psychologist Dr. Paul Babiak teams up with Dr. Hare to focus on the psychopath’s role in modern corporations. Documenting the psychopath’s patterns of skilled manipulation, Snakes in Suits informs the reader how to spot him before he destroys.

The psychopath is selfish, greedy, and deceptive, looking out only for himself and his own warped agenda. He can severely damage the structure of a company while harming the morale and trust that should exist in an efficient work environment. Babiak and Hare believe that the most effective way to avoid these individuals is to know how they operate so that you can recognize their malevolent ways. Snakes in Suits offers informative yet easy-to-understand explanation of the disorder—and the primary behaviors to watch for. Signs of a psychopath at work include:

• He gives the perfect interview, and quickly becomes everybody’s favorite employee.

• He can be charming and exudes confidence and determination—but he may seem too good to be true.

• He works his way into a high-powered position or gets assigned important projects because he has associated only with the people who can advance his career.

• He soon becomes controlling and abusive toward other employees, starts to break small rules, manipulate colleagues, and gets caught blaming others for his own faults.

• It is later revealed that he has been destroying the management while pushing his way to the top.

Snakes in Suits reveals the psychopath’s secrets, introduces the ways in which they manipulate and deceive, and helps readers see through their games. The rapid pace of today’s corporate environment provides the perfect breeding ground for these employees, and Snakes in Suits will give readers the necessary tools to protect themselves and their companies—before it’s too late.

By: Dr. Paul Babiak, Dr. Robert D. Hare
Imprint: Harper Business
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Revised ed.
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 556g
ISBN: 9780062697547
ISBN 10: 0062697544
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 19 September 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paul Babiak, Ph.D. is a New York-based industrial and organizational psychologist, and president of HRBackOffice, an executive coaching and consulting firm specializing in helping executives deal with possible psychopaths hiding within their organizations. He and his collaborators have conducted some of the most influential original research on corporate psychopaths. His work has been featured in newspapers, business magazines, and documentaries and he has been a guest on many radio and television talk shows. His clients have included executives in business, academia, law enforcement, government, insurance, medicine, marketing, finance and intelligence and he speaks about the corporate psychopath at professional conferences and business meetings. Paul is vice president of the Aftermath: Surviving Psychopathy Foundation, a non-profit organization providing information and support for victims of psychopathy. Robert Hare, Ph.D. is the author of Without Conscience and the creator of the standard tool for diagnosing psychopathy, the Hare Psychopathy Checklist. He lives in British Columbia, Canada, where he is a professor at the University of British Columbia.