"The idea of leadership failure and derailment has been brushed under the carpet for far too long and only now are the statistics on the sheer numbers who fail coming out. Backstabbers and Bullies provides the latest psychiatric and clinical perspectives on dark side behaviour, including:

Preface -- 1. The incidence and cost of management failure -- 2. Managment derailment -- 3. Management incompetence and derailment : Too little and too much of a good thing -- 4. Corrupt countries and sick corporate cultures : bad places to be -- 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 narcissim : 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.