People forget that this exact dynamic caused Henry Ford to go from being a figure of near-universal reverence to the paranoid racist crackpot "Crazy Henry" of later life, taking his company from total dominance to near-bankruptcy in the process. https://twitter.com/A_W_Gordon/status/1276571313168097282">https://twitter.com/A_W_Gordo...

There was one other key fundamental factor in Henry Ford& #39;s downfall: nobody in his personal or professional life could impose meaningful constraints on his behavior, no matter how much it may have been in his or his company& #39;s interests.

Ego and genius can accomplish amazing things, but also impose an often-impossible challenge: how do you preserve the good that a brilliant individual can accomplish by constraining the bad that comes along with it? If the individual has a taste for sycophants, you basically can& #39;t