It is easy to identify the school and workplace bully when there are escalations in chaos and classroom or workplace tension because bullies are often central figures who receive credit for all infamous deeds and, sometimes, heroics. However, before the bully-like behaviors reach the point of being intolerable, they have already interfered with normal and healthy social structures, learning, and classroom productivity. Insidiously, and long before the problem is identified or attributed to bullying, the bully may already have resources, information, and knowledge. Bullies create unsafe learning and recreational environments, destroy self-esteem and self-efficacy of both the victim and the bystander, and undermine every functional process of the community learning experience. At times, bullies are rewarded for their talents and “saving the day,” while they abuse the rights and privileges of others. However, classroom, playground, neighborhood, and workplace bullies do not suddenly emerge; they are fueled by imbalances in organizational culture and slowly nurtured to take their unfair share of power.
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