Thoughts to Build On

many obvious reasons to discuss here. It is sufficient to
state that any marriage counselor will unequivocally assure
you that most unhappy marriages are the result of frustra-
tion with its accompanying aggression, overt, or repressed
into the subconscious where it may reappear as resent-
ment, scorn, jealousy, bitterness, nagging, temper out-
bursts, easily hurt feelings and general unpleasantness.
So, frustration and its resulting aggression are the prime
causes of unhappy marriages.
And frustration goes on to other areas of life,
to cause incalculable damage. Business, by its very nature
-its complexities, constant personal contact, competition,
change, ambition, pressure-is a spawning ground of frus-
trations of every description and magnitude. Not only does
business cause frustrations, but it stimulates aggression by
requiring competition within companies in the constant
building and rebuilding of each corporate power super-
structure.
When you combine ambitious power struggles
at the higher levels, personality conHicts at all levels, and
labor-management problems ranging from hostile disputes
to violent strikes-all within one company environment-
you have the ingredients which produce frustration and
aggression on a grand scale!
Add to the intracompany frustration, the com-
petitive aggression of the market place-and the result is
the well-named Corporate Jungle. No wonder business
mEm have ulcers, nervous breakdowns and heart attacks!
There is no easy solution to ending or even
greatly reducing the frustration which is so finnly built into