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Christian Bale's character in American Psycho.
  • Corporate psychopaths are drawn to powerful institutions and good at climbing a corporate ladder.
  • An expert explains how these people destabilize the companies they're part of. 
  • There are things you can do, like strengthening your hiring process, to protect your company from them. 

They're calculated, charming, and charismatic, but you don't want them in your company. Corporate psychopaths are drawn to positions of power, and may be in your field. 

Corporate psychopaths excel at breaching companies and climbing up promotional ladders, Clive Boddy, the head of the School of Management at Anglia Ruskin University in the UK, told Insider.