"If anything, we want a chief happiness officer mentality in the company, rather than a chief happiness officer person in the company," he says.
Economist Nick Stern attacked the mentality of chief executives in oil companies like Shell.
I've long thought that the reason executive compensation became such a flashpoint was because it, too, signaled an "I want mine" mentality among chief executives.
"There is a less-is-more mentality," said Jeremy Anwyl, chief executive of the auto research site Edmunds.com.
"People used to be in a siloed mentality," said Nancy Hill, chief executive at the Four A's.
"It becomes a herd mentality," says Richard Peterson, chief market strategist for Thomson Financial Securities Data.
To some extent, uniformity is a consequence of "builder mentality," said Leonard Rampulla, the chief architectural partner in Rampulla Associates.
"There is a herd mentality around Internet stocks," said Daniel L. Rosensweig, chief executive of ZDNet.
A war-room mentality took over, moving from the chief investment office to more and more players at the bank.
"At the end of the day, he's still chief over those officers that have the same mentality".
More than a decade ago, Andrew S. Grove, then the chief executive of Intel, aptly described the hypercompetitive mentality of Silicon Valley in his book title "Only the Paranoid Survive".
