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.

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