Gas-lighting - the deliberate attempt to invalidate and erode another person's perception of reality by constantly questioning or undermining it - is now a pretty well known term. But it can appear...

We've already covered extensively on this blog how damaging psychopaths are to a company if they allow them in, and then tolerate them. The bottom line is despite superficial appearances, these are...

Psychopaths are the worst types of managers you can have, with a provocative, reaction seeking style and an obsession with power and control over others that can be very oppressive to work under. How...

A lot is written about psychopaths in personal relationships, with the damage they cause now well documented. But what about in workplaces? What happens when a company hires, and then tolerates (even...

This is unfortunately a common pattern in workplaces, where we find someone constantly seems to be provoking us, but then we also get word of them sneaking around talking to others about what we said...

This can be a really distressing thing to discover - that your boss has actually been sneaking around your workplace, talking badly about you to colleagues or other management ("trash talking", "bad...