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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Clive Boddy, a p&lt;span&gt;rofessor of leadership&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&#160;and organizational b&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;ehavior at London&#39;s Middlesex University&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&#160;Business School, knows a thing or two about corporate psychopaths and bullies. Boddy has extensively studied the unfortunate frequency and traits of psychopaths and bullies, and he himself has been bullied by a corporate psychopath at work.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;According to Boddy (and the psychologists he&#39;s spoken to in the course of his research), these are the main characteristics of corporate psychopaths:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;They are extroverts and appear to be sociable.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;They are predatory: they enjoy hurting others, enjoy watching people get hurt, and enjoy hurting people&#39;s careers.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;They are cruel.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;They are rude.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;They are selfish.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;They often get angry and argue and yell.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;They have no feelings or empathy.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;They do not have a conscience (and so don&#39;t believe they are doing anything wrong, which is why they can sleep easily at night).&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;They often come from privileged backgrounds and, at an early age, figured out&#160;that through the corporate world, as opposed to the criminal world, they could more easily earn prestige, power, and money.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;They often bully others &quot;to create confusion and chaos all around them, so that they can forge their own political and social and career agendas while everybody else is emotionally distracted. This creates a smoke screen for them to get on with what they are really doing, which is gaining power and influence and prestige and&#160;money within the corporation.&quot;&#160;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sound familiar?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I, and Boddy, are betting that it does. After all, an estimated 1 percent of the population is said to be made up of corporate psychopaths. And so, chances are, if you work in a corporation with more than 100 people, you know one, and work with one.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What&#39;s perhaps scarier than the number of corporate psychopaths out there who enjoy bullying their colleagues, thus creating toxic work environments and ruining people&#39;s careers and lives, is the frightening&#160;fact that these types of bullies are more likely than those around them to get promoted.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Find out why this is unfortunately so in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlb1pfwgha4&amp;amp;app=desktop&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;video&lt;/a&gt; below (hint: it has something to do with that smoke screen mentioned above).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And for information on how to try to determine if someone you work with might be a corporate psychopath, check out the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/features/the-hare-psychotherapy-checklist&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Hare Psychopath Checklist&lt;/a&gt;, created in the 1970s by Canadian psychologist Dr. Robert Hare.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/tlB1pFwGhA4&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;Follow me on&#160;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/vaultfinance&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;Follow us on&#160;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.instagram.com/vaultcareers/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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