All hail the conquering Narcissist

I read this book again and found it to be most amusing. It's called Toxic Coworkers. In it the author talks about executive narcissism and organizational narcissism referring to executives in organizations who manifest an inflated sense of self-respect and self-confidence, to put it kindly. He talks about a dynamic called the "groupthink" first proposed by the psychologist Janis in 1972. In a "groupthink" executives and their subordinates, when working in groups," develop certain characteristic behaviors or attitudes." These are:

1. an illusion of invulnerability, 2. a sense of superiority to those considered to be part of the outgroup or competition, 3. discarding or demeaning information that is contradictory to already held beliefs, 4. require excessive admiration, 5. are interpersonally exploitative, i.e. take advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends.

The book tells you how to deal with people who have varying degrees of personality disorders whether they are your boss, a peer, or a subordinate. Some of the other disorders addressed in the book are histrionic, anti-social, borderline, passive aggressive, avoidant, schizoid, paranoid, and dependent, etc. etc.

I am sure the book doesn't intend to be funny or amusing. It is at times and it's sad too. I would recommend this book to anyone in a corporate environment.