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Theultimate test of management is performance -the achievement of actual results. Why, then, do Australian managers concernthemselves with their colleagues' personalities and motives? Why have they become infatuated with emotional intelligence and, in bizarre cases, with spiritual intelligence?Traditionally, managers who performedearned the right to argue with their colleagues.Nowadays, individuals who argue are said tolack 'soft skills'while a sad few are thought to be suffering from apersonality disorder.

The popularity of soft-skill management has created psychomanagers: managers...

How can we gain insight into and mastery of ourselves? Entering the world of the great philosophers and engaging with them, we become aware of what we are capable of becoming. They speak to us of themselves and the good life and thereby offer the possibility for self-development.

While this sounds like psychology, it is what the ancient Greeks called moral philosophy and its main precept is 'know oneself'. To know oneself is to embrace one's personal power.

From Socrates to Sartre, from Plato to postmodernism, philosophers have important things to say about the personal power that...