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Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work Paperback – May 8, 2007

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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


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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.

About the Author

Paul Babiak, Ph.D. is a New York-based industrial and organizational psychologist, and president of HRBackOffice, an executive coaching and consulting firm specializing in helping executives deal with possible psychopaths hiding within their organizations. He and his collaborators have conducted some of the most influential original research on corporate psychopaths. His work has been featured in newspapers, business magazines, and documentaries and he has been a guest on many radio and television talk shows. His clients have included executives in business, academia, law enforcement, government, insurance, medicine, marketing, finance and intelligence and he speaks about the corporate psychopath at professional conferences and business meetings. Paul is vice president of the Aftermath: Surviving Psychopathy Foundation, a non-profit organization providing information and support for victims of psychopathy.



Robert D. Hare, Ph.D., is the author of Without Conscience and the creator of the standard tool for diagnosing psychopathy. He is an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, and president of Darkstone Research Group, a forensic research and consulting firm. He has won numerous awards for his research, lectures widely on psychopathy, and consults with law enforcement organizations, including the FBI. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0061147893
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperBusiness; Reprint edition (May 8, 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780061147890
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0061147890
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.06 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.88 x 6 x 9 inches
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Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2024
This book definitely gives you insight on how corporates functions and how the mindset of businesses are all after. It's very relatable but also mind boggling that corporations forget what they're doing is all about once they get to a certain point of success. It's saddening but also our reality. Just wish there is some kind of off switch where enough should really be enough instead of wanting more and more.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2024
I work in a technology company and sadly I was a victim of my psychopathic supervisor, he turned everyone against me and turned my own friends into enemies. So I gave up, I took some time, but I already knew what was coming for a long time because he always showed himself to be an unreliable person, and with this book I ended up proving the worst, and that is that all the descriptions and scenes in this book , I lived it at that job. I am grateful with all my heart that professionals clarify the unclarable in characters like these and above all provide tools for future self-defense. I hope that one day there will be more progress on these issues that unfortunately affect many people.
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2012
What makes Psychopaths intriguing is not necessarily their disorder, but it is the fact that Psychopaths often are MORE effective in achieving their objectives than non-Psychopaths. Psychopathy is a debilitation of moral conscience (or just lack of it), and ironically, the lack of empathy, sense of right vs. wrong, and remorse often makes the Psychopaths far more dangerous precisely because they carry their objectives with single-minded purpose without inner conflict.

In my opinion, everyone who has basic understanding of Psychology should understand Psychopaths. First, understanding Psychopaths will help you identify them so you would know who to avoid. About 1%-4% of the population are Psychopaths. Contrary to the popular belief, not all Psychopaths are criminals (but a huge percentage of criminals are Psychopaths). Rather, a substantial percentage of psychopaths are well-educated, charming, funny, and socially adept. They can be identified by 1)Lack of empathy 2)Lack of remorse 3)Huge ego 4)Strong sense of entitlement 5)Impulsiveness (including quick temper) 6)compulsive lying etc. Remember, Psychopaths are master manipulators and they will lie like no other and people often fall prey to Psychopaths even KNOWING they are Psychopaths (read about John Grambling in the book).

Second, understanding the Psychopaths will help you to 1)Gain understanding of inner conflicts that makes us human but often is a hinderance to achieving our maximum potential and 2)learn to suppress this inner conflict at times when a single-mindedness is absolutely necessary. In other words, you will understand your own psychology better. Even though only 1%-4% of population are Psychopaths, many of us have SOME psychopathic tendencies (you want to get rid of these tendencies by becoming more emphathetic).

As for the book, I obviously learned a lot but I thought it had couple of flaws.

First, about half the book is a story of fictional psychopath character. I think mixing non-fiction and fiction was curious and I don't think the mix was well done.

Second, I thought the author could have emphasized some important points. He merely meanders through some very intriguing aspects of the psychopath's mind, sometimes buried deep within the fictional story, which leaves the reader digging unnecessarily through his book. In summary, the author should have left the fictional part of the book out.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2023
It seems that there are a lot of click bait books on the psychology of 'difficult' people. This one is not one of those. It's well written with examples and recommendations on how to to avoid hiring psychopaths. A must read for any leader, unless of course, you are a psychopath.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2012
The main writer, Paul Babiak, does a poor job of covering the subject - which is probably covered better in the book Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us by the second writer, Robert Hare. Babiak is just jumping on what he perceives as as bandwagon and profiting from it, without adding much on his own. He is unscrupulous himself.

When he comes to distinguishing between Psychopathy, Sociopathy, and Antisocial Personality Disorder (on page 18-19) he is not helpful, and refers to the DSM-IV instead!

When he talks of Psychopathy and Narcissism on pages 40 and 41, one is left with the feeling that psychiatry needs some help itself. From my own experience, I can name a few psychotherapists that are only interested in serving themselves - but are very good at hiding this.

The arts have been dealing with the subject of bad people forever, and have done a much better job of it than the psychiatrists have.
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Veronica
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in Canada on January 3, 2024
Very informative
Mirian Annita
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente
Reviewed in Brazil on January 23, 2023
Conforme o anunciado. #recomendo
Salvador
5.0 out of 5 stars Quizás el mejor libro para comprender la psicopatía en entornos laborales y corporativos.
Reviewed in Mexico on January 30, 2022
Escrito por el experto mundial en psicopatía, el
Libro es un referente invaluable para comprender el alto riesgo que implica la personalidad de psicópatas integrados en corporaciones públicas y privadas, tanto para las propias organizaciones como para el bienestar de los individuos que las integran.
LaGio
5.0 out of 5 stars Psicopatici tra noi
Reviewed in Italy on October 29, 2021
Molto interessante scritto bene. Ho imparato tanto
Utilizzato per la stesua della mia laurea in magistrale in psicologia del diritto. Lo vorrei tradotto in italiano. Tutti dovrebbero leggere libri come questi soprattutto i responsabili delle risorse umane
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EG
5.0 out of 5 stars Non technical explanation about psychopaths
Reviewed in Spain on August 4, 2019
Everybody should read this book. Easy to read. Insightful.