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Leading Wisely
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Leading Wisely

by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
March 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
192 pages
3h 47m
English
Wiley
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7Greed

This avarice,

Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root.

—William Shakespeare

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

—Henry Thoreau

Lesson 4: Greed

While envy is a resentful emotion reflecting the need to possess a perceived superior quality, achievement or possession that someone else has, greed is an insatiable longing for wealth, status and power. Like envy, greed has to do with human beings’ insecurities, so no wonder it has been with us forever. It is yet another dark side of human nature and has little to do with wisdom. In fact, wisdom and greed may be positioned at the opposite ends of a spectrum.

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