Review: Scapegoats at Work: Taking the Bull’s-Eye Off Your Back, February 20, 2015, by Eric Greenleaf PhD

“This book addresses an all-too-common yet rarely discussed workplace phenomenon–scapegoating. Based on their work with casualties of this painful experience, Dyckman and Cutler offer a lucid, engaging, and practical guide through the unfamiliar and treacherous terrain of office politics and power dynamics. Scapegoats at Work can save your job and your sanity.”–Thomas Herington, MD. Kaiser Permanente Occupational Health Services

“Clear writing and clear thinking make this an unusually useful book for anyone working with other people. The authors take us step by step through an understanding of scapegoating and on to strategies to oppose it. Their psychological sharpness unfolds in a textured sense of the social world–the place we all really live and struggle.”–Eric Greenleaf, Ph.D. author of “The Problem of Evil”

“The sound research, convincing evidence and real life examples reported in the book will give you the tools to avoid becoming a target…I wish this book had been available years ago: it would have saved countless individuals and organizations a lot of needless pain and wasted time.”–Isabella Conti, Ph.D., management consultant and co-author of “From Power to Partnership”

“Offers an understanding of how and why we blame and creates the challenge to change our values to produce a far better environment to operate in and be successful….This is a must read for all HR Professionals that would like to participate in a successful performance-based organization.”–Bob Redlo, Director, Human Resources Department Kaiser Medical Center