Business & Ego.
You think you are the engine. You believe that without your constant pushing, planning, and worrying, your company would collapse. You carry the weight of every outcome on your shoulders, gripping the steering wheel so tightly your knuckles turn white. In the boardroom, we call this Executive Titanism. It is
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Look around your office. Look at the endless meetings, the 50-page reports, the micromanagement, and the manufactured crises. We are addicted to complexity. We are taught that to solve a problem, we must think harder. We glorify the sleepless nights, the grinding, and the painful path to the top. We
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They taught us in school to admire Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, and Napoleon. They told us these were the great men of history. They lied. In reality, these men were sick with ego. They didn't love life; they only loved power. They were actually the smallest of
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Let’s bring the conqueror's mindset to the present. Today’s managers and founders do the exact same thing as those ancient kings. They build empires. They use their ego as a rocket engine. On the surface, it looks like massive security and raw power. But in reality,