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Yesterday I hosted Dr. Gary Namie, aka the “Workplace Doctor®” at MTSU. He spoke to an undergraduate Business Communications class, to a group of education faculty and students, to a graduate Current Issues in Management class, and then to a general session which was free and open to the public. If you attended, I think that you can agree he was stellar. Dr. Namie brought both personal experience (and a wealth of knowledge) to illuminate a topic that employers side-step: bullying at work. Although Namie did not specifically address student bullying, he did talk about abusive school superintendents and the emotional havoc they can wreck on teachers. Some of the main points that Dr. Namie made are the following: Turn the page…