What I'm about to say is not a reflection on the author of this piece.  I don't know her, have never interacted with her.  There are some wonderful, authentic people in the work force who form strong (and healthy) relationships the right way, for the right reasons.  She might indeed be one of those people.

But, generally speaking, I also know the following:  An individual with a lot of psychopathic personality traits will form 'strong relationships' alright (in the workplace as well as in other realms of life).  In other words, he/she will surround himself/herself with a cultivated posse of shills.  The purpose of the shills, of course, is to help disguise the true nature of the psychopathic individual.  As well, the shills gullibly do a lot of the dirty work at the behest of the psychopath.  

Strong relationships are a beautiful thing - unless they are based on gullibility, covert abuse and naivete.