And I’d say those difficult personalities simply didn’t play on enough sports teams. ;-)
“And I’d say those difficult personalities simply didn’t play on enough sports teams. ;-)”
Actually I doubt most of them played sports.
Employees of an organization model the behavior of their leaders. If executives model collaborative behavior, and hold employees accountable for working effectively together, the organization will display collaborative behavior. If the executive staff is made of individuals with big egos, clawing their way to the top of the pyramid, employees will not be collaborative.
Unfortunately most corporate executive compensation systems reward individual performance over group performance. Therefore if I can make myself look good and you look bad while the organization suffers, I’m better of financially than if the organization succeeds but you look better than me.