Dysfunctional orgs put leaders in impossible situations where the only thing they can do to survive is bad faith tactics, e.g.

Dysfunctional orgs put leaders in impossible situations where the only thing they can do to survive is bad faith tactics, e.g. spiking any projects that would possibly undermine their kayfabe to anyone.

In such a situation if you act with integrity you are knocked out of the game.

So you do some bad faith tactics to stay alive: "I'm just doing this for now, to get to a stable situation where I can act with integrity".

But it never ends, you have to do more and more.

And meanwhile people watch you work without integrity and think about you "I'd be happy if they were no longer here, they're clearly not acting with integrity."

Deeply dysfunctional orgs irreparably taint the leaders who are in them and make them hollowed out husks.