Egoistic and creative

While historians record the socioeconomic determinants of Lincoln-like leadership, and neuroscientists observe parenting in mice labs, business managers, on a daily basis, conjecture something unspecific and essential about human motivation. What is required in most tasks is part-unpredictable. Something like creativity or resilience or grit may mean more than a conformist type of intellectual achievement. In The Human Side of Enterprise, Douglas McGregor associates these intangible desirable qualities with unsatisfied needs – for self-esteem or knowledge or status, for example. Egoistic humans leaning to self-development can inspire and problem-solve and whatever else.