Mq:
I subscribe to the chimpoid school of human behavior. I'll go one step further and say that you can explain all of human behavior in terms of what is evolutionarily favorable and what is not. This gets most fascinating when you explore reproductive behavior, but that would be a wild tangent so I'll leave it alone for now.
I am reluctantly coming to the conclusion that almost everyone who reaches the top of a large public company (with the exception of the founders of same, and even many of them) is in some way or another a lowlife. This is so, imo, because open-minded, even-handed, altruistic behavior just does not cut the mustard in the take-no-prisoners political battleground that is the typical corporation. What is far worse, imo, is that humans, for the most part, will not follow open-minded, even-handed, altruistic leaders. We chimpoids voluntarily choose to elevate large, loud, testosterone-soaked apes. I think that the root of this is that we understand that when we put a large, loud, testosterone-soaked ape at the head of our ape troop, they are OUR large, loud, testosterone-soaked ape and will scare the bejesus out of the apes in the next valley. |
