Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go To Work [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Babiak, Paul, Ph.D.; Hare, Robert D., Ph.D

Published by ReganBooks, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, New York, N.Y., 2006

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As new condition dark blue boards with gold spine lettering, contained in a near fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Dedication; Preface; Notes; Acknowledgments and Index. "I always said that if it wasn't studying psychopaths in prison, I'd do so at the stock exchange." - Robert D. Hare, Ph.D., quoted in Fast Company. "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 studies psychopaths. Hare.is a world-renowned expert on psychopathy, and Babiak is an industrial-orgainizational 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 saviours, but all too soon they're abusing the trust of colleagues, manipulating supervisors, and leaving the workplace in shambles. [The book] 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 psychopaths behavior and be able to protect yourself and your company - before it's too late." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Seller Inventory # 003028

Bibliographic Details

Title: Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go To Work...

Publisher: ReganBooks, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, New York, N.Y.

Publication Date: 2006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Edition: 1st Edition