Co-author of Snakes in Suits: Understanding and Surviving the Psychopaths in Your Office, Paul Babiak, Ph.D. is a New York-based industrial and organizational psychologist, and President of HR Back Office, 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.
The statistics commonly published on the demographics of psychopaths do not provide practical guidance of interest to public safety, but we can extract such information with a few algebraic computations. Published Statistics The statistics commonly published on the demographics of psychopaths: Pgp (1.2% in 2008) is the percentage of the general population who are psychopathic…
lesson learned (n): A law that prevents the recurrence of past social upsets. Most laws are passed in response to particular situations. Root cause analysis exposes the underlying dynamics that lead to particular situations. Based on these underlying dynamics, we can design fixes that prevent particular situations from arising. The Constitution of the United States…
13 Assassins (2010), directed by Takashi Miike. The rumors swirled while the production was still in development. According to the rumors, it was to be a remake of 7 Samurai (1954), directed by Akira Kurosawa. It wasn’t, but like 7 Samurai, it was a story of ordinary people overcoming extraordinary criminals. Psychopathy was not a…
Documentary fimmakers Misha Votruba and Vaclav Dejcmar present a seminal movie on how psychopaths operate in today’s world. Featuring interviews with world-renowned psychopathologists Robert Hare and Paul Babiak, it’s a must see for anyone who thinks a college education taught you everything you need to know about working in Corporate America.
