I wouldn't be so fast to equate that list of character "flaws" with failure. A case can be made that in business many of those traits are actually quite desirable - take, for example, Carnegie, Morgan, Rockefeller or Ford. John D. Rockefeller didn't became the world’s first billionaire by being a nice guy. And Carnegie was even worse, as demonstrated by the ruthlessness he displayed squashing the 1892 Homestead Strike. His views on natural selection were downright radical and would make him the poster boy for that list, lol. Of course the same traits that made them so successful professionally, wreaked havoc on their personal lives.
By no means am I putting Berger in this class...not by a long shot...just pointing out that the traits in of themselves don't portend ultimate failure.
