Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work

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I've also dealt with too many people who take a review of a book as a personal attack, discussion of racism as racism, disliking books written by people of color as not liking people of color, and criticism as general negativity. Don’t get us wrong, we’re almost exclusively fuelled by coffee, but we can't survive on hope and our own determination. Most likely, you won’t realize what you’re dealing with until it’s too late, but there are a few ways to prepare yourself.

In 2012, an article by Walter Isaacson, the author of the 2011 self-titled biography of Steve Jobs, appeared in the Harvard Business Review connecting Jobs’s personality and leadership style to the overall success Apple enjoyed throughout his reign. On this, ME Thomas – the author and self-proclaimed sociopath – has another view: “I believe that most people who interact with sociopaths are better off than they otherwise would be.

The only hope for those involved is to quickly spot these predators before they destroy the organization. In the following key points, you’ll learn about psychopaths and how they’re able to identify your weaknesses. Their violence is especially chilling since it tends to lack any emotional component; rather it's usually a cold means to an end. Third, the changing nature of business itself is also a contributing factor to the increase in psychopathic persons being hired.

Because a psychopathic coworker can harm your career in seen and unseen ways, we hope that this knowledge will prepare you to defend yourself in the future. With the need to embrace change came a switch from hiring organization men and women who would maintain the status quo to hiring individuals who could shake the trees, rattle cages, and get things done quickly.

In the following blinks, you’ll find out what psychopaths are like and why they’re able to easily identify and take advantage of your weaknesses, even if you’re a trained psychologist. In addition, Gus and Helen were seen as an excellent combination for the task, and while individually quite different in approach and style, they would make a very powerful team—she could learn from his experience as much as he could learn from her. In Snakes in Suits, Revised and Updated Edition, Babiak, an industrial and organizational psychologist and a leading authority on the corporate psychopath, and Hare, an expert on the scientific study of criminal psychopathy, examine the role of psychopaths in modern corporations and provide the tools employers and employees can use to avoid and deal with them.