Word: ego
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...Levinson in the March-April issue of the Harvard Business Review, "the business is an instrument, an extension of himself. So he has great difficulty giving up his instrument, his source of social power." Levinson, a visiting professor of psychology at the Harvard Business School, says that this intense ego involvement makes it hard for the patriarch to delegate responsibility and almost impossible for him to step down. Many sons of self-made titans, he warns, have to cope with long hours, low pay and an agonizing wait for the old man's retirement...
...exactly was the crime committed? By enshrining the transcendental ego, the "imperial self." The three culprits substituted I for we as the national pronoun, making the concept of community "almost un-American...
...problem, if not a disease, is at least as old as the Renaissance. One deplores with Anderson that "we have fallen out of love with society on this continent." But it is only another form of self-obsession to put the blame on a three-headed monster ego named Waldo Whitman James. · Melvin Maddocks
Opinions vary in stress and intensity, but most often, dissatisfaction grows out of the fear that Radcliffe is being submerged rather than merged. "I don't want to be lost in the Harvard ego." one freshman says...
...cross between Vivien Leigh's and Consuelo's). Six months later, she changed her name as well by marrying Prince Nicoló Pignatelli Aragona Cortes; the union was "a disaster" from which she emerged, 15 years later, with two children, one title and "a shattered ego...