“Bullying consists of the least competent most aggressive employee projecting their incompetence on to the least aggressive most competent employee and winning.” WinningEmployeeBullyingAggressiveBullyCompetentIncompetenceBullied Author:Tim Field
“The best indicator of a sociopath serial bully is not a clinical diagnosis but the trail of devastation and destruction of lives and livelihoods surrounding this individual throughout their life.” IndividualDestructionBullyingBullyTrailsDiagnosisBulliedLivelihoodSerialsSociopathDevastationIndicatorsClinicalsBeing Bullied Author:Tim Field
“Most organisations have a serial bully. It never ceases to amaze me how one person's divisive dysfunctional behaviour can permeate the entire organisation like a cancer.” PersonsCancerCeaseBullyingBehaviourBullyOrganisationSerials Author:Tim Field
“The serial bully, who in my estimation accounts for about one person in thirty in society, is the single most important threat to the effectiveness of organisations, the profitability of industry, the performance of the economy, and the prosperity of society.” PersonsImportantEconomyIndustryPerformancesAccountsThreatProsperityThirtyBullyingBullyEffectivenessOrganisationSerialsEstimationProfitability Author:Tim Field
“Nothing can prepare you for living or working with a sociopathic serial bully. It is the most devastating, draining, misunderstood, and ultimately futile experience imaginable.” BullyingBullyMisunderstoodSerialsDraining Author:Tim Field
“I just want the bullying to stop. That is all I ever wanted. I used to love going to school. Now I hate it.” WantWantedSchoolUsedHateI HateBullyingUsed To Love Author:Tim Field
“Being bullied by a serial bully is equivalent to being stalked or being battered by a partner or being abused as a child and should be accorded the same gravity.” ShouldChildrenPartnersBullyingGravityBullyBulliedSerialsBatteredBeing Bullied Author:Tim Field
“Until there's a public commitment, and action to back that commitment, a policy is only words on paper.” ActionPolicyPaperCommitmentBullyingWords On Paper Author:Tim Field
“Recently there's been a trend to apply the term "bullying" to any kind of conflict at work, for example overwork and long hours. Although some bullying behaviours may be present in these issues, in my view this dilutes and devalues the term "workplace bullying" which should be used only for the more serious cases of conflict involving a serial bully. If there isn't a serial bully involved, it's probably not bullying you're dealing with.” IfsShouldKindMayLongUsedTermHoursViewsCasesIssuesExampleSeriousInvolvedConflictBullyingTrendsBehaviourWorkplaceBullyInvolvingSerialsLong HoursOverworkDevalue Author:Tim Field
“The challenge of being a manager is to get the best out of everybody, not just the few who are clones of yourself.” ChallengesManagersBullying Author:Tim Field
“It is the lack of knowledge of, or the unwillingness to recognise, or the deliberate denial of the existence of the serial bully which is the most common reason for an unsatisfactory outcome for both employee and employer.” ReasonCommonExistenceDenialOutcomesEmployeeBullyingBullyDeliberateEmployersRecogniseSerialsLack Of KnowledgeEmployees And Employers Author:Tim Field
“The vehemence with which a person denies the existence of the serial bully is directly proportional to the congruence of the person's behaviour with that of the serial bully” PersonsExistenceDenyBullyingBehaviourBullySerialsVehemenceCongruence Author:Tim Field
“Bullies thrive wherever authority is weak” AuthorityWeakThriveBullyingBullyBulliedBeing Bullied Author:Tim Field
“Why does the UK government ignore workplace bullying? Our system of democracy - government and law - is based on the adversarial model. To be successful in these fields, bullying behaviour is almost a prerequisite.” DoeGovernmentLawDemocracySuccessfulFieldsModelsBeing SuccessfulBullyingBehaviourWorkplacePrerequisites Author:Tim Field
“Each Act of Parliament intended to address harassment and discrimination has faced objections on the basis of 'you'll never be able to prove...' and 'there's too much legislation already...'. In no case has this line of reasoning ever been sustained.” AbleLinesCasesToo MuchProveBasesDiscriminationReasoningAddressesBullyingLegislationParliamentObjectionsHarassment Author:Tim Field
“Today's workplace has become heartless and soulless. Employees are seen as units of labour, automatons, functionaries, objects for achieving designated tasks, and as costs to be minimised.” TodayAchieveObjectsCostTasksEmployeeLabourBullyingUnitsWorkplaceHeartlessSoulless Author:Tim Field
“Whilst accidents and assaults injure and kill people quickly and spectacularly, bullying and consequent prolonged negative stress injure and kill people slowly and secretively. The outcome, though, is the same.” PeopleNegativeStressAccidentsOutcomesBullyingAssault Author:Tim Field
“Any anti-bullying scheme, initiative or policy which fails to mention accountability for the bullies is likely to meet with little, and often no, success” LittlesFailingPolicyAccountabilityBullyingInitiativeSchemesBullyAnti Bullying Author:Tim Field
“There is a light at the end of the tunnel but first you'll have to find the light switch and change the bulb before switching it on yourself. No problem, as targets of bullying are picked on for their competence and abilities.” FirstsEndsProblemLightAbilityTargetBullyingNo ProblemCompetenceTunnelsBulbsSwitchingLight At The End Of The TunnelEnd Of The Tunnel Author:Tim Field
“The Bully has a Jekyll and Hyde nature - is vile, vicious and vindictive in private, but innocent and charming in front of witnesses; no-one can (or wants to) believe this individual has a vindictive nature - only the current target of the serial bully's aggression sees both sides; whilst the Jekyll side is described as "charming" and convincing enough to deceive personnel, management and a tribunal, the Hyde side is frequently described as "evil"; Hyde is the real person, Jekyll is an act.” WantBelievePersonsRealEnoughEvilIndividualSidesFrontsManagementCurrentsInnocentWitnessTargetBullyingAggressionDeceivingCharmingBoth SidesBullyViciousConvincingTwo SidesDark SideSerialsMean PeopleReal PersonPersonnelVindictiveTribunalsAnti BullyingHydeJekyllVindictivenessJekyll And Hyde Author:Tim Field
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.” MadeSilenceSelf EsteemSelf LoveVictimIndividualityOneselfSelf ConfidenceMeaningfulEsteemBeing TrueThis LifeLive LifeBeing YourselfBullyingAbout YourselfBe YouBeing RealLive Your LifeTrue SelfBullyBeing MeBulliedJust Be YourselfBeing MyselfRespect YourselfSelf Esteem And ConfidenceI Love MyselfDefine YourselfInspirations Being YourselfBeing BulliedLife LivingJust Live Your LifeAnti BullyingInspiring Self EsteemLove Your SelfYourself And LoveAccepting LifeSelf Confidence MotivationalThinking Of YourselfI Love My LifeTrue To OneselfBullying InspirationalGreat Self EsteemCyber BullyingInspirational BullyingInspiring YourselfLive For YourselfYourself And LifeBecoming YourselfSelf BeingLife Yourself Author:Tim Field