Memory remains, and the images I have created and still not molded in flesh. They will leave their harsh mark on me, it is true! But my heart is left me, and the same flesh and blood which Likewise can Love and suffer and desire and remember, and this is, after all, life. On voit le soleil! Well, good-bye, brother! Do not grieve for me Dostoevsky On Terri Schiavo
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Nick O'Malley, Workplace Reporter, touches on what many of us have known for many years. There are Hitler’s little helpers in many management and leadership positions.
One in 10 Australian managers are deceitful, cold-hearted manipulators bent on attaining power for its own sake, new research shows. Devoid of empathy, they are reckless and leave a trail of wrecked careers, corporate destruction and a legacy of fear.
A psychotherapist with the consultancy Banks Management Group, Dr Glyn Brokensha, has coined the term "powerpath" to describe such managers to differentiate them from criminal psychopaths. He describes powerpathic behaviour as being on a continuum - all of us behave in such a manner occasionally, but powerpaths take it to an extreme.
Dr Brokensha said powerpaths, typically articulate, charming and confident, thrive in businesses with autocratic management cultures where they can curry favour with peers and superiors, while causing misery for those who report to them.
"You'll get senior management say, 'So-and-so is really good. He has cleared out all the deadwood, all the non-performers.' And then find three years later that the deadwood has not been cleared out. He has cleared out anybody who knew what he was, anyone who opposed him," he said. "He is actually a glib non-performer himself."
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