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
According to the international organization Great Place to Work® (http://www.greatplacetowork.com.au/home), the key drivers of business success are “high-quality relationships in the workplace — relationships characterised by trust, pride, and camaraderie”. They highlight trust as being the foremost defining quality of a great company. Great Place to Work® (GPtW) compiles lists of the best places to work in countries around the globe. The hope being, that companies that strive to
grat-i-tude: The quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness. We don't always have control over what happens at work but we do have control over how we react. We can choose to respond to difficult or challenging situations in a way that is uplifting rather than disheartening, constructive instead of destructive. That's where gratitude comes in. When we practice gratitude we are more
