Workplace psychopaths are often charming to staff above their level in the workplace hierarchy but abusive to staff below their level. Hare considers newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell to have been a strong candidate as a corporate psychopath.he workplace psychopath may show a high number of the following behavioural patterns. The individual behaviours themselves are not exclusive to the workplace psychopath; though the higher number of patterns exhibited the more likely he or she will conform to the psychopath's characteristic profile:
David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is a private foundation that provides grants to not-for-profit organizations. It was created in 1964 by David Packard (co-founder of HP) and his wife Lucile Salter Packard. Following David Packard's death in 1996, the Foundation became the beneficiary of part of his estate.
From 1899, when the firm began its life, it produced a continuing line of cars that represented the best quality possible. The Packard had perhaps the most legendary beginning of any car. James Ward Packard, mechanical engineer, purchased a Winton in 1898. Alexander Winton made good cars and extremely fast cars, but the one he sold to Packard must have had many flaws because on its first road trip the new car balked, stalled, and finally quit. Packard was not a man to take this lightly. Returning the car to its builder he engaged him in a furious argument.