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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | 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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| | Product Details | | Author: | Paul Babiak | | Paperback: | 352 pages | | Publisher: | Harper Paperbacks | | Publication Date: | May 01, 2007 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0061147893 | | Package Length: | 8.9 inches | | Package Width: | 6.0 inches | | Package Height: | 0.8 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.05 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 49 reviews |
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0 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 A great book for the office Jun 07, 2010
This book was recommended by someone else who thought is was a real eyeopener.
I arrived fast and I'm anxious to read it.
6 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Interesting, but... Nov 27, 2009
A book on an important and interesting topic, written by two great experts, well in particular Hare who seems to be the foremost authority in the world on psychopaths, but in a confused way, or at least it got me confused.
I give it noneheless three stars because the content is important, and seems to be well made, unfortunately their style protected my brain from it.
They interweave passages of fiction and didactic explanations, this great litterary trick did not help my memorization of the latter, when I turned the last page I had to admit it was a little bit of a mess in my mind about all the didactic and practical infos on psychopaths. I remember their stories well though!
So much for the fluke of storytelling.
Moreover, I found their description of the corporate world, even psychopath-free, rather depressing.
Oh, and by the way: No, Christophe Rocancourt, the notorious Hollywood con man, is not revered as a national hero in France, I don't know where they picked that.
 Fascinating! Nov 21, 2009
Fascinating! I learned a lot about these kookies in the workplace. (and also applied it to my personal dealings with people.) Great read. Makes you realize that you know a psychopath~or 3, in your lifetime! Highly recommended.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work Nov 07, 2009
Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work
This 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.
5 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Better for Employers of Snakes in Suits Than The Snakes' Neighbors Sep 20, 2009
The subtitle for this book is "When Psychopaths Go to Work," and so what the reader learns about psychopaths is largely within the framework of corporate offices. The book does not make for riveting or scary reading, but the authors do their best to rise to a sense of the dramatic by first calling their chapters "Act I, Scene I - Grand Entrance" for the first chapter while ending up with "Act V, Scene III," like a Shakespeare play, at the last chapter and then include fictional psychopathic characters in short story form to introduce the topic under discussion in each chapter or Act. For this reader, the dramatic technique did not work. I found myself skipping the fictional sections (and some side-bar information) in order to go directly to the non-fictionalized portion of each chapter.
What is found in these pages is a less violent, less disturbing and less informative view of psychopaths than can be found in "Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us," written ten years earlier by Robert D. Hare. What you don't find in "Without Conscience" is any awareness that psychopaths do find upper-level management positions in the corporate world. For that information alone, this book is invaluable. Corporate psychopaths don't spill blood so much as they spill deceitful receipts, false bills of laden, fake resumes, phony credit, and other people's money.
Still, a good chunk of the book is addressed to Human Resources personnel and employers who want to screen out those women and men who suffer from this severe personality disorder. There are two or three chapters wholly devoted to interviewing techniques, screening, questionnaire development, qualification verification, etc. This book, then, is great (only) for those who like to read policy manuals and who are in management and human resources development.
I did find it odd -- and contradictory -- that the authors go the extra mile to make clear just what is a psychopath and how to recognize (and screen out) her or him but then, like a self-important policeman rather than a public servant, they declare "no one" is to label a human being as a psychopath -- except for qualified psychotherapists, namely themselves. Still, the book ends with a fictional scenario that contains a warning: the psychopath succeeds in topping the former high-ranking manager; he has deceived and scammed his way to the top. (The nice guy comes in last, by comparison.) Sound familiar?
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