As an avid reader of BusinessWeek I found the following article timely and relevant (and a bit sarcastic):
Are You Being A Jerk? Again?
In the article, the following seemed appropriate for this blog:
"A second, and equally reliable, force that makes people hard to stomach is having power over others. The belief that power turns people into selfish jerks has been around a long time. This isn't just a myth. A growing body of research—notably by professors Dachner Keltner at University of California, Berkeley, Deborah Gruenfeld at Stanford, and their students—documents that three things happen when people are put in positions of power:
1. They focus more on satisfying their own needs;
2. They focus less on the needs of their underlings;
3. They act like "the rules" others are expected to follow don't apply to them.
A particularly amusing study—undertaken by Keltner, Gruenfeld, and another colleague—shows that giving people just a little more power than their colleagues causes them to eat more cookies, chew with their mouths open, and leave more crumbs. Keltner also cites research showing that power leads people to process information in shallower ways and to make decisions that are less carefully reasoned."
Are You Being A Jerk? Again?
In the article, the following seemed appropriate for this blog:
"A second, and equally reliable, force that makes people hard to stomach is having power over others. The belief that power turns people into selfish jerks has been around a long time. This isn't just a myth. A growing body of research—notably by professors Dachner Keltner at University of California, Berkeley, Deborah Gruenfeld at Stanford, and their students—documents that three things happen when people are put in positions of power:
1. They focus more on satisfying their own needs;
2. They focus less on the needs of their underlings;
3. They act like "the rules" others are expected to follow don't apply to them.
A particularly amusing study—undertaken by Keltner, Gruenfeld, and another colleague—shows that giving people just a little more power than their colleagues causes them to eat more cookies, chew with their mouths open, and leave more crumbs. Keltner also cites research showing that power leads people to process information in shallower ways and to make decisions that are less carefully reasoned."
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2 comments:
This whole article completely explains your ego. It is because you think you have "POWER OVER OTHERS". I am glad that you have given me the opportunity to figure that out. I am sure that your friend Elijah read the same article and that explains a lot concerning him as well.
this article is an excellent example of the government, as a whole, that we have the need to defend ourselves against! Only the humble and the respectful deserve such positions! Thank you for passing this article on to us. It defines the very reasons for this "emotionally charged" situation!
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