Addictive behavior in organizations prevents mindfulness, blocks authenticity, and separates people from their values and beliefs. Addicted leaders are irresponsible and unaware of their impact on others. Like the alcoholic, they need to be confronted with their behavior. Addictive organizations do not allow feelings. The Cartesian split separated our minds from our bodies, and addiction drives emotions underground.
People lose touch with their pain, fear, anger, anxiety, and depression.
This separation from themselves leads to separation from others. If people felt their emotions, they would want to tell the truth, and there's no room for truth, about many things, in addictive organizations. Both, I believe, feared the reality that the honest expression of emotions would have brought forth. A senior manager in an organization questioned executive behavior that violated the values of the company. The behavior the manager challenged was not discussed.