What if the people you are trying to control have something to teach? What if their aggregated behaviors indicate the need for a change – do to opportunity or threat – in your leadership objectives or strategy?

Giving in to human tendencies leads to the opposite of a “learning organization,” and completely antithetical to what we are learning about human capital management, complex adaptive (organizational) systems, etc.

I think it is a natural tendency of human beings to want to control their environment for maximum benefit. The challenge is that as a person becomes more successful or rises in positional authority controlling the environment leads to controlling others. Now they have the power to do it because they are the CEO or chief EGO officer. This is how I see things. I reserve the right to be completely wrong.