Visible Trait #3:
A Bully is Very Ambitious

A bully is highly ambitious and power hungry.

Highly ambitious

- He is highly focused on financial gain, to the point of avarice - He is highly focused on his own success - He wants more power and prestige - He displays zeal in pursuit of his own goals - He only gives lip service to the company's goals - He uses the company's goals as an excuse to aggressively pursue his own selfish goals

A bully tries to gain power over his peers

- He is always seeking to add to his power base - He entices peers into his department - He tries to get peers assigned to project he controls - He promises an equal role to peers, but makes them subordinate - He seeks to be on committees that set rules and direction for the company

A bully colors the perceptions of top management

- He makes himself look good to top management - He makes you look bad to top management - He manipulates top management into assigning peers to his projects - He helps set the company's vision by promising big profits

A bully maximizes his control of company resources

(Company resources include staffing, work assignments, budgets, outside consultants, time, supplies, honors and awards, special benefits and other perks, attention from upper management)

- He prevents you from getting enough company resources - He pre-empts company resources by taking them in advance - He shifts company resources to his projects by claiming higher priority - He shifts company resources to members of his power base - He entices the best people in the company to transfer to his department

A bully exploits his subordinates to outshine his peers

- He manipulates his subordinates into working long hours - He takes credit for motivating subordinates to extreme sacrifices - He downplays the high rate of turnover in his department - He ignores the overall impact of low morale on the company

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