If Alfredo Reinado is the “Patsy” as defined below, who then is the “psychopath” ?
Question:
The assessment phase. Here, the psychopathic employee identifies the potential support network of that consist of:
Patrons (those who will protect and defend the psychopath),
Pawns (those who can be unwittingly manipulated into using their power in service of the psychopath's aims),
Organizational Police (staff in such control functions as audit, security, human resources who might get in the way).
The manipulation phase: the psychopath works the patrons and pawns, building the influence network through close and intense one-on-one relationships and at the same time moving up the organization.
Confrontation phase. Individuals no longer deemed useful discover they've been wiped, relegated from close friend to Patsy. Two factions start forming:
Influential supporters (Pawns and Patrons);
Powerless detractors (Patsies and Police).
Answer:
I have enough problems trying to decipher american politics, much less indonesian. ;-)
But I do love the question (or at least its premise)!
Never in my life have I ever seen the principles of "power politics" so lucidly and eloquently defined.
Fascinating. And suitable for framing, actually! ;-)
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