Sublime

Organizational life can be irritating and frustrating and can divert people’s effort and attention. Ambition—a focus on achieving influence—can help people overcome the temptation to give up or to give in to the irritations.

As an organizational psychologist,

identify value-based resistance to managerial work,

your organization says its culture is and what employees actually experience, it’s because everything you have is aspirational.

Before, individual contributions were still part of their job description. Now they need to divest themselves of individual tasks.

Power in organizations is seen as a scarce commodity worth fighting for. This situation invariably brings out the shadowy side of human nature: personal ambition, politics, mistrust, fear, and greed. At the bottom of organizations, it often evokes the twin brothers of powerlessness: resignation and resentment.

well-established career paths and processes.

identity foreclosure—when we settle prematurely on a sense of self without enough due diligence, and close our minds to alternative selves.

bewildered: