Maybe you have worked alongside them or have hired them. Perhaps you have been impressed by their drive, ambition, intelligence, and charm. We're talking about what Dr Robert Hare, pre-eminent authority on psychopaths, calls a corporate psychopath: a "nonviolent person prone to the selfish and remorseless use of others." Manipulative, ruthless, callous, often smart and charismatic, they are unable to feel empathy or guilt. Psychopaths can wreak havoc in
I recently read that a particular world leader receives folders twice a day ‘full of positive news stories, tweets praising him and sometimes pictures’ of himself on TV ‘looking powerful’. It is a level of narcissism uneasily reminiscent of the evil queen in Snow White and her mirror on the wall. As I watch current developments around the world, it reminds me of an article published in the February
Many organisations avoid the issue of crisis planning, as if anticipating a crisis is tempting fate. Establishing a set of basic crisis management procedures, which can be used in any organisation from a school to a major industrial centre can be done using four steps: Determine the major categories of crisis events that may occur in the organisation. Crises can be divided into three types, people crises, natural disasters
