31-10-2014, 09:18 AM
Reading that account, he was de facto forced out by boardroom gladiators who couldn't tolerate his less rigid, top-down-control style, I would say. I wonder if Omidyar wholly expected to be able to control these journalists through corporate tactics (hence his boys throwing their weight around) and found he couldn't - so it had to end this way?
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14