Making Business Personal

To an extent that the authors are only beginning to appreciate, most people at work, even in high-performing organizations, divert considerable energy every day to a second job that no one has hired them to do: preserving their reputations, putting their best selves forward, and hiding their inadequacies from others and themselves. The authors believe this is the single biggest cause of wasted resources in nearly every company today.

https://hbr.org/2014/04/making-business-personal