Believe me when I tell you that by far this is the most interesting news link ever posted on the supremebeings.org News Rant. The title for the article (Is Your Boss a Psychopath?) is somewhat misleading with regards to the content, but the misleading is not at all in a bad way. This is truly an eye opener and gateway into the mind and personality traits of many of the individuals in "Corporate America", and in our everyday lives. YES IT IS LONG!! But believe me when I tell you this is a MUST READ. Articles like this don't come around too often.

Sneak previews:
Psychopaths succeed in conventional society in large measure because few of us grasp that they are fundamentally different from ourselves. We assume that they, too, care about other people's feelings. This makes it easier for them to "play" us. Although they lack empathy, they develop an actor's expertise in evoking ours. While they don't care about us, "they have an element of emotional intelligence, of being able to see our emotions very clearly and manipulate them," says Michael Maccoby, a psychotherapist who has consulted for major corporations.

...most horror stories of workplace psychopathy remain the stuff of frightened whispers. Insiders in the New York media business say the publisher of one of the nation's most famous magazines broke the nose of one of his female sales reps in the 1990s. But he was considered so valuable to the organization that the incident didn't impede his career.

Trust me; this will change your views and explain the attitudes of many of the individuals you interact with at work. Don't forget to leave your comments and check out the new poll to the right "My Boss is..."

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