Us-versus-them thinking and a generalized fear of loss prevail. Over time, companies hire more-aggressive people and fire less-aggressive ones, coarsening the culture even more. Gender diversity suffers, as women on average tend to behave less aggressively than men. If you want to understand why so many workplaces have failed to retain female leaders and foster a cordial workspace, you can’t ignore the profoundly aggressive mindset (a warlike mentality being only one manifestation) that is ingrained in business thinking and practice at certain large companies around the world.
