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    Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work
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    Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work

    Written by Paul Babiak, Ph.D. and Robert D. Hare, Ph.D.

    Narrated by Todd McLaren

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    About this audiobook

    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.

    Psychopaths 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. In Snakes in Suits, corporate psychologist Dr. Paul Babiak teams up with psychopathy expert Dr. Robert Hare to focus on the psychopath's role in modern corporations. They found that it's exactly the modern, open, more flexible corporate world that is the perfect breeding ground for these employees.

    Snakes in Suits reveals psychopaths' secrets, introduces the ways in which they manipulate and deceive, and helps listeners see through their games. It is a compelling, frightening, and scientifically sound look at exactly how psychopaths work in the corporate environment, teaching you how they apply their "instinctive" manipulation techniques to business processes. It's a must listen for anyone in the business world, making you aware of the subtle warning signs of psychopathic behavior-before it's too late.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Audio
    Release dateSep 27, 2011
    ISBN9781452674247
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    • 3/5
      I found chapters 2 and 8-9 useful. The rest of the book is repetitive and the writing is amateurish.
    • 3/5
      "Dumb psychopaths go to prison, smart psychopaths go to the executive floor". That's the premise of this interesting book that analyses how psychopaths manage to be successful in corporate environments or in specific industries. According to the author, psychopaths are 4 times more frequent among managers than among the general population.The book offers many great insights, and although inevitably, when specific examples were mentioned, I did sometimes wonder whether impression management or high-energy office banter might label me a psychopath (don't read this if you have psychological hypochondria), the author makes clear that true psychopaths display an entire range of behaviours with underneath a chilling emotional shallowness.The pace slows down a bit here and there when the author provides specific HR advice for people dealing with psychopaths (when they're already part of the organisation), or trying to weed out psychopaths from job applicants.This book helped me realise that an old friend (now estranged), whose behaviour I'd always found strange and cruel, had many psychopathic tendencies, as did a former colleague whose destructive energy had previously baffled me (you know who you are :). If I'd read this book before, I'd have realised this sooner and I would have been better prepared to deal with their behaviour. But odds are I'll meet more psychopaths during the rest of my career, so unfortunately it will probably come in useful in the future.
    • 3/5
      - Babiak and Hare write the story of a fictional Dave, an archetype business psychopath. The story is accompanied by highlight boxes with relevant research and concludes with helpful defensive techniques if one has to deal with one of these people.They interestingly show how psychopathological aggression, self confidence, lack of respect, manipulation and egoism can promote a psychopath in certain business environments and they note that psychopaths are more common in business (3%) than in society at large (1%). They frequently destroy their companies if they reach top management with a good example being Andrew Fastow of Enron (see Eichenwald's "Conspiracy of Fools").Personally I have only come across two of these people, one as an employee (who I terminated) and a client (who we cut contact with) but in the early stages the manipulation was successful and the whole psychopath checklist was present.As a related point, while reading this book my mind kept turning to Steve Jobs of Apple.
    • 2/5
      This could have been about a third of the length and not lost content. It is VERY repetitive. I'm not sure how helpful it is, either, although the last couple of chapters do make a pass at offering hints about how to cope if one is working with such a snake.The authors also claim that not all corporations are psychopathic. I wonder about this, since the legal mandate for corps is precisely psychopathic: they are legally required to do everything possible to improve shareholder value/profits, no matter what the cost is to society at large or their own workers. By the definitions in the book, that sounds scarily close to psychopathy to me!In short: not really recommended. "The Sociopath Next Door" was much better-written and more helpful. With this one, I was hoping for some info that would make some sense of some of the huge corporate scandals of recent years, but there was really nothing like that.
    • 2/5
      Bleargh. Pointless and shallow. Not what I expected from the man who wrote the diagnostic test for psychopathy. The lameness of this book makes me begin to wonder about the thinking behind the diagnosis.On the other hand, made me realize I haven't worked with anyone who is truly a psychopath.