Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work

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Although not necessarily criminal, their self-serving natures are frequently destructive to the organizations that employ them. Third, the changing nature of business itself is also a contributing factor to the increase in psychopathic persons being hired.

Naturally, she was the choice to replace Gus, and was rewarded by a promotion to his position as COO. This hiring switch inadvertently led to the selection of some individuals with psychopathic traits and characteristics. Still others have embraced the self-serving mantras that greed is good and that success at any cost to others is justifiable and even desirable.

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Though they represent only one percent of the general population, they are responsible for over half the serious and violent crimes that occur in society.Snakes in Suits has also been reviewed by Publishers Weekly, [2] Booklist, [3] Psychology Today, [4] California Bookwatch, [5] Security Management, [6] Canadian Business, [7] and Finweek. There was not a sad person in the place that night; quite a change from most Friday nights at O’Hare’s over the past two years.