[TheRealDunkirk]

> They're willing to sacrifice the quality of the team, its output, and the company at large for their own personal gain.

I could write a book about it over just what I've seen with my own eyes for 30 years. I wish someone would have forced me to see that, when this happens, it's almost always because someone is making a _conscious_ choice to do so, NOT because "they're stupid." It would have saved me an unbelievable amount of time and frustration, trying to "correct" their thinking from a place of naiveté and best intentions. My personality is such that I couldn't conceive that this path would have been chosen, as I thought it would be (in essence) "evil." Really, it's just another strategy for whatever "success" they can achieve, by people who don't have any of the other tools at their disposal. It's sad, but it's a fact of life and the nature of the human race. Once you can understand this, it's easier to recognize it, and just route around it. It took me 20 years to get it. I hope others fare better.