The expansive executive: How the drive to mastery helps and hinders organizations
基于对高管性格与领导力的深入研究，本文揭示了追求卓越的强烈动力如何使某些高管走向极端，既可能成为组织成功的助力，也可能带来破坏性后果。
Abstract What drives executives has a great deal to do with how they lead. Executives generally are highly motivated to attain mastery—to achieve at a high level, to be exceptionally capable, to be acknowledged as masterful, and so on. An intense drive to mastery is certainly a prerequisite to effective executive leadership. But in some executives there can be virtually no limit to the extent of their ambition for themselves and their organizations. These driven individuals are capable of going to counterproductive extremes to satisfy their appetites for mastery. So, based on intensive research on character and leadership on senior managers, this article shows how the “expansive” temperament can be a boon or a bane to an organization's existence.