O'Neil, John - Dark Side of Excellence
Business and Leadership
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28m
Business training techniques often focus mindlessly on "positive thinking," glossing over the need for executives to engage in soul-searching and self-renewal. John O'Neil, former president of the California School of Professional Psychology, discusses the unfortunate trend in business to treat "success" as an all-consuming end in itself, without regard to the consequences of this attitude.
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