Think Tank

Think TankThe GamesmanA lot has been written about how to play the corporate game, but--until Michael Maccoby came along--very little about the emotional costs of playing it. A psychoanalyst and director of the Harvard Project on Technology, Work and Character, Maccoby and his group of researchers interviewed 250 managers, ranging from chief executives down to lower-level professional employees, in 12 well-known corporations.The survey's conclusion is not particularly surprising: The process of...