This is understanding today's narcissist.

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And now here's your host, Christine Hammond.

I ever wonder how you can manage to work with a narcissist?

I have had a lot of experience working with them over the years.

Probably some of the biggest areas that I have seen narcissists are in

the positions of power and influence such as high-level managers also seen

attorneys who are a narcissist and I've also seen attorneys as narcissists as

well as it being very dominant in the financial industry.

My personal experience with this has led me to write quite a bit about working with narcissism,

and so today I'm going to share with you my top ten tips for how to work with a narcissist.

The nervousness, intention, and terror that Meryl Street managed to portray as Miranda Priestley in the

movie The Devil Wears Prada is just all too familiar for some.

She did such a fabulous job of characterizing what it means to work for a female narcissist.

Now I've had personal experience with this, both with male and female narcissist,

and I can tell you one is not better than the other. They're both the same, but they have a little

bit different characteristics, and I'm going to save that for another podcast. So for right now,

let's just talk about how narcissists manage to rise to the top of the food chain, mostly because they don't mind

leaving a trail of destructive relationships behind in the process. They're all about doing whatever

it takes in order for them to get to the top. One of the characteristics of a narcissist, in fact,

is that they easily take advantage of other people and they have no empathy.

So that combination allows them to really go far in corporate America.

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