Carol Shumate
19 / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy
Tags: Carol Shumate, control, dominant function, Hero archetype, Hitler, inflation, megalomania, narcissism, paranoia, perfectionism, persona, power, self-esteem, social role, superior function
April 16, 2014

Some of the most difficult people to deal with are extraordinarily competent but refuse to share power or flex to consider other perspectives. Thus, they become obstructionists in contemporary society; and numerous studies of modern corporations have found “a disproportional number of narcissistic individuals [in] executive leadership positions.”
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John Beebe
04 / Archetypes / Organizations, Teams, and Career Development / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: auxiliary function, Buddhist, complexes, Dependent Origination, dominant function, ESFP, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), Good Parent archetype, Hero archetype, Hewlett-Packard, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted sensation (Si), Isabel Briggs Myers, John Beebe, teams, The Wizard of Oz
March 1, 2011

We can oppose this image of the San Francisco Giants to the kind of team we see in some corporations where the different members of the team try so hard to maintain the same corporate persona . . . On such a team, nobody shows any individual peculiarities . . . and I’m sure that no real consciousness can emerge from behind such a mask.
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