Jul 23, 2017 · 1 min read
Many people (including CEOs) don’t trust their belief system, should they have one. They need to be expected something by others to act. It could be firing people. Nobody wakes up happy : “I am going to fire half of the company today. It’s going to be a good day!”. They explain that they wake up to fire people because they have to, in order to save the company.
This is what Hannah Arendt calls “the banality of the evil”. She attended the trail of Adolf Eichmann (a Nazi criminal) in 1962. Eichmann insisted he had not had any authority in the Nazi hierarchy and had only been following orders…
