Research Catalog

Title

Snakes in suits : when psychopaths go to work / Paul Babiak and Robert D. Hare.

Author

Babiak, Paul

Publication

New York, NY : HC, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lawrence, Paul R.
• Hare, Robert D., 1934-

Description

xv, 336 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

• Overview: 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.

Alternative Title

When psychopaths go to work

Subjects

• Antisocial Personality Disorder
• Antisocial personality disorders
• Psychology, Industrial

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface -- Act 1, Scene 1: Grand Entrance: -- Nice suit-would a snake war such a nice suit? -- Who are these people? -- Act 1, Scene 2: Off And Running: -- What you see may not be what you see -- Act 2, Scene 1: Hail-Fellow-Well-Met: -- Psychopathic manipulation: how did he do that? -- Act 2, Scene 2: Plucking The Apple: -- Enter the psychopath, stage left -- Act 3, Scene 1: Panic Time: -- Pawns, patrons, and patsies: roles in the psychopath's drama -- Act 3, Scene 2: Honest Mistake?: -- Darkness and chaos: the psychopath's friends -- Act 3, Scene 3: Let's Do Lunch: -- I'm not a psychopath, I just talk and act like one -- Act 4: Doubts Dance Away: -- Enemy at the gates -- Act 5, Scene 1: Circle The Wagons: -- Hot buttons and weak sports: personal self-defense -- Act 5, Scene 2: Unraveling The Puzzle: -- Fifth column: psychopaths in our midst -- Act 5, Scene 3: Rise and the Fall: -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

ISBN

• 0061147893 (pbk.) :
• 9780061147890 (pbk.) :

OCLC

• 137295924
• SCSB-11896712

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library