I wrote that near the end of a 12 hour day, thinking erroneously I was about to have a big problem. It did not materialize, and now that I have had a couple good nights sleep, it seems to me that I was partially right, but largely wrong. Certainly, I think the combination of intelligence and sociopathy would be helpful in most corporate environments–and the political realm–but it is less common than I made it sound. I think better terms might be that climbing the ladder can make people mean, cold, and calculating–or in any event to select for these traits. I have heard over the years any number of stories from the inner circles of the elite, and most CEO’s are not very likeable people, once you really know them well.
The book “What Would Machiavelli Do?” discusses these things at length. It is intended mainly as satire, but when I first read it I worked at a very large telecommunications company, and it was simply too true to laugh at. I lived it daily.
I will add that I have a great many things to post, but it doesn’t feel right at the moment. I have been doing a lot of Kum Nye, and it has really opened up some energies and emotions that were quite locked up.
So I’m a chick lately. I’m feeling. The other, intellectual, me will resurface sooner or later.