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An engaging guide to preventing dark-side behaviour, and dealing with any nasty, negative narcissists we encounter in the workplace.

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The idea of leadership failure and derailment has been brushed under the carpet for far too long and only now are statistics appearing on the sheer number of leaders who fail at their jobs. Backstabbers and Bullies provides the latest psychiatric and clinical perspectives on dark-side behaviour, including:

- recognising and coping with over-confident, narcissistic and psychopathic leaders;
- causes of leadership derailment and failure;
- corrupt corporate cultures; and
- the criminal personality.

Fascinating reading for anyone who has worked alongside a corporate psychopath, business narcissist or histrionic show-off, Backstabbers and Bullies goes beyond the science to explain how to better understand, manage and prevent dark-side behaviour, as well as presenting advice for reducing derailment potential for yourself, your colleagues and your organisation.

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Preface

1. The incidence and cost of management failure
2. Management derailment
3. Management incompetence and derailment
4. Corrupt countries and sick corporate cultures
5. The criminal personality and criminal gangs
6. Five accounts: Explaining the cause of leadership derailment
7. The successful psychopath at work
8. Arrogance, hubris and narcissism: The overconfident leader
9. The paranoid, schizotypal, histrionic and obsessive-compulsive leader
10. The sick executive
11. Prevention and management of the dark side

Bibliography
Appendix
Index

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The dictator, the narcissist, the plain old corrupt - this whistle-stop tour of where leaders go wrong makes a rollercoaster read. Rebecca Alexander Management Today

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Adrian Furnham is Professor of Psychologyat UCL. He has written over 1200 scientific papers and 80 books, and is among the most well-known and productive psychologists in the world, noted for his motivational speaking. Adrian is a newspaper columnist, previously at the Financial Times and the Sunday Times and a regular blogger He has written regularly for the Daily Telegraph and is a regular contributor to national and international radio and television stations, including the BBC, CNN, and ITV.

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