Dealing with Crab Mentality in the Workplace

In psychology, the term, ‘The Crab Mentality’ is used to illustrate the selfish, harmful, and jealous mindset of people who will constantly try to undermine and halt the progress of better-performing people in a group.  There’s a story behind the origin of this term. A man once sat on a fishing dock and observed a bunch of live crabs in a bucket. Every now and then, a crab would crawl up in an effort to reach the top and escape. And each time it almost made closer to the top, a crab from below would reach up and pull it all the way to the bottom. Again, another crab would try to climb out, and again, another crab from the bottom would