A bully/psychopathic/sociopathic boss can kill a passion for excellence in any job in a matter of a few work days.
It's a huge task to completely take control of what things motivate you even when you are being punished for good behavior, and rewarded for bad behavior. There are managers who actually damage the team and prevent work from occurring. Sometimes they know full well what they are doing, destroying the entire team as a vendetta for another reason. Psychopaths and sociopaths are all around us, some of them are high achievers. Career damaging blackmail, and passive aggression are likely to hit hard with these people.
Actually, I'd go so far as to say that they're usually high achievers, to the point of being pathological. Their egos are so wound up in doing things that they discourage people from suggesting that they do otherwise.
It's a huge task to completely take control of what things motivate you even when you are being punished for good behavior, and rewarded for bad behavior. There are managers who actually damage the team and prevent work from occurring. Sometimes they know full well what they are doing, destroying the entire team as a vendetta for another reason. Psychopaths and sociopaths are all around us, some of them are high achievers. Career damaging blackmail, and passive aggression are likely to hit hard with these people.