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“An unheralded, unnamed revolution is unfolding in our midst. Everywhere, people are becoming less willing to put up with disrespect.” (Fuller, 2003). In his book “Sombodies and Nobodies” Fuller (a former college president) explains that power differentials are not evil per se– rather, it’s how incumbents wield their position that results in oppression or in …Read the Rest

You can kill a person only once, but when you humiliate him, you kill him many times over. The Talmud. The phrase “there is strength in numbers” takes a menacing turn when discussing workplace mobbing. In their book “Mobbing: Emotional Abuse in the American Workplace” Davenport, Schwartz and Elliott (1999) discuss the massive psychic toll …Read the Rest