ABSTRACT
The topic of this essay may seem at first glance far removed from the concerns of consultation and change, but that relevance for readers should grow. Early sections sketch the impulses toward the sociopathological facing all people in all organizations, but especially the would-be prominents in organizations untethered by values that safeguard human needs and aspirations. If this early material is reasonably close to the mark, it provides motivation for the effort concluding this essay to illustrate some of what can be done to swim against sociopathological tendencies in today’s organizations.
