Manipulation Dark Psychology to Manipulate and Control People

The Professional World
If you work in a company, it’s likely that you’ve been exposed to ambitious
individuals whose goal is to climb the corporate ladder. Again, in the
professional world, a certain level of manipulation is to be expected. This is
one of the reasons that working together with personal friends can create
complications, as a conflict exists in managing these two different kinds of
relationships – competitive and supportive.
In professional life, you are presented with a range of different relationship
paradigms. Your relationship to fellow team members will vary to that with
your boss, or to those who work under you. Modern corporate structures
tend to be flatter and a managerial approach that relies purely on authority
is less viable than it used to be. It’s up to managers and team-leaders to
“motivate” their employees. Well done if you immediately identified
motivation as another form of manipulation.
This book concerns itself specifically with professional and personal
relationships, so expect some relevant examples for manipulation in the
workplace.

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Personal Relationships
This is inevitably the most controversial arena for manipulation, yet
ironically it is probably the most natural. From the moment you’re born,
you come preprogrammed with the ability to cry – a simple and effective
way to communicate immediate needs, in order to receive care and
attention.
Manipulation happens in family relationships as well as in friendships and
romantic relationships.
The reason for controversy is rooted in the idea that contriving to
manipulate others, in personal relationships, is something unnatural and
rooted in a need for control. Although, once again, there is some grey area.
It’s quite normal for a parent to manipulate a child’s behavior by using a
system of incentives and punishments. This is normally considered to be