Editorial
Understanding the Executive Narcissist
A narcissist can be defined as an individual who exhibits a narcissistic personality disorder, which is one of a number of types of personality disorders. In the context of narcissism, a disorder is defined as "an illness or condition that disrupts normal physical or mental functions."
Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a psychological condition, a skewing of the mind, which sees individuals with an inflated sense of self-importance, with a deep-seeded need for excessive admiration and attention or infamy, a total absence of any empathy for others or the impact of their behaviours on others, and who often suffer from troubled relationships both inside the organisation they operate in and in their personal lives.
Narcissists have often been bullied and harrassed in early years, driving their insecurity to ensure they regain and maintain control over others once adults, even to the extent they in turn become the bully.
This editorial discusses the mindset of the executive narcissist, generally hiding in plain sight, within the NSW government sector. In particular, this discussion is focused on those who make decisions about the public's fundamental legally enforceable right to access NSW government information, and the same legally enforceable rights concerning the public's privacy (albeit the public's understanding of what is legally enforceable is very different to the government's reality).
As such, this editorial discusses this topic in the context of NSW Right to Information Officers and Privacy Officers, all of whom are government employees, and most of whom enter their roles without any formal qualifications whatseover.
At first glance a narcissist may appear totally normal, even friendly and helpful, informative, guiding. This is a time for this psychologically fractured individual to assess their next potential victimm for weakness and capacity to be manipulated. The narcissist wants to know what they have to gain from tolerating your very existence and interacting with you, how you can be used, and to what degree you will fight back if at all.
A narcissist operates best with those viewed as inferior, although most people will fit that category in their mind.
Placed in positions of authority and power, a narcissist occupying an executive role is a very dangerous individual, as they often go to extreme lengths to achieve their end goals, and when they are exposed for their behaviours and misconduct towards others, they effectively and often successfully buck-pass blame for their actions onto their victims which enables the justification of evidenced and further mistreatment.
Narcissists are able to inflict substantial and often irrepairable damage upon their victims. Such damage is generally a combination of financial, emotional, phychological and professional pain and suffering.
When authority and power is unchecked, that is when the narcissist has no guardian or oversight, particularly in the governmental workplace, the damage they can and do inflict can be immeasurable and irreparable leaving victims permanently traumatised.
These individuals are very skilled in finding denegrating informaton about their victims which they do not hesitate to use. There are also recorded instances of a governmental executive narcissist personally creating false and misleading information about a number of victim(s) for the purpose of defending and justifying unlawful damaging actions. Records originating from the same government agency confirm the public's personal information is accessed, amended, retained and used without lawful consent, as well as being provided and disseminated to other agencies in covert fashion to ensure end goals are successful.
Generally viewed as trustworthy and credible individuals at face value in their executive roles, narcissists are known to abuse their positions of authority and power, accessing substantial amounts of organisational funds to "deal" with victims who often find themselves in an uphill battle against such a skilled and equipped adversary; an adversary with access to unlimited funding and resources.
A government-employed narcissist will never use their own money to launch legal action against a victim!
How to deal with a narcissist
The general consensus is not to engage with a narcissist and to cease all contact.
In other words avoid them if at all possible.
Of course, this is practically impossible if you find you are dealing with one such individual in a government role, one which you have no secondary point of contact or alternative to deal with your issue or enquiry . A narcissist who knows they are the primary point of contact, where the public has no alternative but to deal with them directly, can actually feel more empowered with your every attempt to legitimately interract with them in the exercise of your legal rights.
And a narcissist will not be told they are wrong about anything; they know everything there is to know about practically everything, in their grandiose mind.
What to expect from a narcissist
You can expect a narcissist to bait you, to procrastinate and frustrate you, to deliberately and continuously try to anger you to provoke a response, to treat you with disrespect and contempt, to play mind games with you, to manipulate your personal information, to breach your privacy, to fabricate false evidence against you, and to generally make any government business that involves you as distasteful, painful and costly to you as possible.
The executive narcissist will not hesitate to covertly compile a dossier about you to use when the time is right.
You can also expect a narcissist to effectively 'gas light' you.
And you can very definitely expect a government-employed narcissist to threaten you with legal action paid for by public monies.
There are numerous legal cases which highlight the behaviour of a narcissist.
BUT, what you can also expect is if you stand your ground with a narcissist, and strictly adhere to governmental policy, procedure and the legislation, and at all times speak the truth and hold fast to the evidence of their actions, that you will eventually expose the person, and you can also effect necessary change.
You might even find your narcissist eventually running for cover once exposed! After all, a narcissist is a coward.
Conclusion
Through the process of attaining her degree in criminology, and with a focus on white collar crime and the psychopathy of those who commit this type of crime, Telina Webb is confident in saying she has been dealing with an executive narcissist in the NSW Local Council arena for a number of years, an individual who initially had no hesitation in suggesting, implementing and circulating false and misleading claims against her and her husband, but who once exposed is now working extremely hard and with the use of significant public funds to try to hide from accountability and identification.
There is numerous caselaw that now cements the allegations and labelling of both her and her husband, most of which has been overturned. However these caselaw attest to the lengths an executive narcissist will go to in order to win, knowing at all times the claims made were completely false and misleading, designed to influence key decision-makers including the NSW judiciary.
This narcissist thereafter effectively acted to weaponise the false and misleading claims, covertly ciruclating those to secondary NSW government agencies, creating a moral panic.
You can contact Telina Webb for information about caselaw which highlights the actions and misconduct that both she and her husband repeatedly suffered. You can also seek direction to the case law which revealed and disempowered their narcissist.
If you feel you are or have been dealing with an individual displaying characteristics of a narcissistic personality disorder, you are encouraged to share your experiences and speak out against these executives within the NSW government sector who abuse their power and authority against the often (initially) unsuspecting public.