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“Self-centered behavior can lead to an excessive focus on self-gratification at work, which can result in the violation of others’ rights, or in abuses of control, bullying, and exploitation…” (Gilbert, Carr-Ruffino, Ivancevich, & Konopaske, 2011).

The recent New York Times piece (alleging toxicity within Goldman Sachs) was surprising both from a content and authorship perspective. The penman was an employee who publicly submitted his resignation letter online. Turn the page…

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God says we need to love our enemies. It hard to do. But it can start by telling the truth [The Help].

Lately, I’ve watched films that portray the human condition under duress. One of these is an Oscar nominated movie entitled “The Help,” in which maids (living in the deep South) decided to invoke change. They contributed their personal stories to a book that illuminated their condition as oppressed, exploited, degraded, and abused. Turn the page…

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