Word: ego
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nothing resembling a moral deficiency. We know that something, probably an ego deficit, made them obsessed with proving competence. They carry an open wound that they're really running to escape from. In Leona's case, it would seem that she was running from a fear of being "a little person," and the fact that she was a real estate saleswoman who happened to marry one of the richest men in New York...
...course. Joe DiMaggio didn't have Pete Rose's problem. He could retire and move on to other things. But Rose didn't seem to have a differentiated ego. In other words, he didn't derive self-esteem from multiple sources. He was a ball-park rat. There may not have been anything else for him to do. People like Rose and Levine and Milken seem like fundamentally limited men. In the business world, look at Peter Lynch, who walked away from running Fidelity's Magellan fund with the express purpose of spending more time with his family and charities...
Minke, Pramoedya Ananta Toer's young narrator and alter-ego in This Earth of Mankind, cannot get his mind off Annelies Mellema. He remembers the first time...
...blow to my ego," said one student who went to the Bureau of Study Counsel for help...
Morale at the firm is so bad that more than 50 top executives have left since 1989. Current and former staff members place much of the blame on Dilenschneider. They describe him as a Machiavellian leader with an oversize ego, a brilliant yet cunning bully who compulsively lied and reneged on promises. Insiders say he was so mistrustful of underlings that he rarely delegated, slept little and was often overextended. "One of his bad habits was not showing up for appointments," complains a leading industry consultant, Edward Gottlieb. "This was an indication of the problems he had keeping the huge...