Psychology for business people

Here you’ll find free advice for working professionals on how to stay sane and happy at work, deal successfully with difficult colleagues, and other fun things we grapple with in the working world.

This section also covers organisational psychology and human resources topics, like psychometrics, coaching, team building and workplace culture.

Is your boss a corporate psychopath?

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Does this remind you of anyone? Superficially charming, even warm. Extreme intimidation of others. Manipulative and controlling. Bad tempered. Self-obsessed. Lacking remorse.

Then you may be working with a corporate psychopath. Contrary to popular understanding, psychopathology is not always about murderousness. It’s defined broadly as …

And there’s a surprising amount of it about. One woman in 200 is classifiable as a psychopath, as is one man in 80. Chances are, you have a psychopath in your building. Read more…