Tim Field Quotes

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• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.
• I just want the bullying to stop. That is all I ever wanted. I used to love going to school. Now I hate it.
• 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…
• Until there's a public commitment, and action to back that commitment, a policy is only words on paper.
• 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…
• The challenge of being a manager is to get the best out of everybody, not just the few who are clones of yourself.
• 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…
• Only the best are bullied.
• 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…
• Bullies thrive wherever authority is weak
• Why does the UK government ignore workplace bullying? Our system of democracy - government and law - is based on the adversarial model. To be…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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
• 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…
• 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…

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