During the years when Attila was forming his confederacy of Huns, the greatest challenge to the Western Roman Empire was to endure internal wars. An organization’s worst enemies are seldom external. Rather, the most deadly and damaging threats come from those who are so driven toward power that their political maneuvering can destroy the very group in which they seek authority. Power-hungry people distract colleagues from their duties, use institutional resources to gain personal power, and very often create dire outcomes for themselves as well as for innocent bystanders. And so it was even in
...more
