
Executive power trips: a positional or organizational problem?
In a Wall Street Journal article entitled “The Power Trip,” it is asserted that the nice folks rise to the top, and being at the top tends to corrupt these “nice guys” — turning them into tyrants that resemble people who have brain damage. This article’s findings do not fully resonate with what I’ve experienced in Corporate America. What I have observed is that the “nice guys” (and gals) are promoted to middle management, where the intermingling of leading and doing requires