When our forefathers, the Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans, framed The United States Constitution and eventually the Bill of Rights they believed in the idea of the individual.  They believed that the rights of individuals should be protected under law and the individual shouldn’t have to obey arbitrary laws nor live up to historical precedent and preference. This, my friends, is what has made America the greatest country in the world. 
Individualism: the belief in the virtues of self-reliance and personal independence.  But even more fundamentally, individualism lends credence to the idea that anyone may become anything based on merit and willpower. 
These ideals have always been America’s life-blood and are the reasons that we are one of the only remaining global superpowers today.  At the heart of individualism, one is to choose standards one aspires to.  Whether moral, economical, or political, the individualist is to choose these standards without constraint from any precedent or religion or any other form of external standards except the scrutiny of logic.
But what happens when the individualist goes too far?  Selfism.
Selfism: concentration of one’s interest on one’s self and has been the status quo since the 1960’s.  People began to view selfishness as a virtue.  While people will usually act in self-interest, the cost of constant selfish decision-making is clouded judgment. 
One of Silver Bridge’s most celebrated and respected journalists goes by the name of Malcolm Gladwell and he wrote a book entitled Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking.  He wrote about how people make split-second decisions based on only bits of information.  In the world of business we make many split second decisions and a selfish person will always in an instant make a selfish decision and the individualist will have conditioned responses that have held up to the standards of logic.  I don’t have to catalogue the many ways selfishness can affect sound business decision-making for you to realize that when in business you have give a little to get a little.  Selfism has no place in the world of business.

You may be thinking what’s his point?

1.)   A disgruntled employee is a vengeful and unproductive employee

2.)   People who view selfish principles as being desirable, lead very unfulfilling lives

3.)   Competitive people are drawn to narcissistic behavior…scary.