64. Mobbing: Have You Heard of the Term?

While researching Ep 53 about Bullies Yo found and read the book Mobbing, Emotional Abuse in the American Workplace by Noa Davenport, PhD, Ruth Distler Schwartz, and Gail Pursell Elliot. Dr. Davenport is a cultural anthropologist, Schwartz and Pursell are consultants in marketing and HR respectively.

The authors call Mobbing, a traumatic syndrome and it can certainly derail you if you’re trying to be or become a leader!

Plus a Newsweek article indicates that Mobbing happens on a global level.

The 3 Episode Takeaways

1. Be aware - be aware of what your spiny “intuitive” sense tells you.

2. Look at your options – leaving isn’t the only one.

3. Looks at what’ going on w/n the team – keep a lookout for those “mobs” that might be at work in your organization.

Links to references made in the episode:

Mobbing, Emotional Abuse in the American Workplace

They Call It “Mobbing” Newsweek Article

Stronger Kelly Clarkson

Related episodes mentioned:

Ep. 53, The Bully Mindset by Gary & Ruth Namie, PhDs