Why Governments Defeat Themselves

If you have to worry about politics; if you have to worry about someone stealing your credit; if you have to worry about your boss not having your back, think about the energy you have to invest not in your business, not in the products you're trying to develop; not in your work; not how great you're producing; not in your creativity but just keeping yourself feeling safe - it's destructive.

Modern politics is leader-centric.  It's the job of staff to have the boss' back with the full expectation that, should the need arise, they will be sacrificed to protect that boss.  Political organizations and bosses at all levels often see their staff as expendable; it's politics, there's always more demand than there is supply.  If you don't measure up you're gone, don't let the door hit you on the way out.

None of this is should come as a surprise; it is, in fact, a science.  But when the boss can do no wrong, then science is a distraction.

Ever wonder why it is that governments religiously defeat themselves?  Wonder no longer.