Premise: At work we are motivated by positive and negative factors. We can refer to one the negative factors as the common enemy(ies) identified by the group. This seems to be a natural state of affairs in social groups like businesses. Within a business organization some groups have contact with the outside world and therefore may develop a common enemy that is the competition, or the parent company, or maybe even another related business unit. For groups within the company without external contact, and without good direction, the identified common enemy may actually be another group within the organization. If this behaviour is fostered by the group leader (group alpha) truly destructive and bizarre behavior can occur, whereby the group starts to destroy the very organization that pays the bills...
Anybody seen this before?
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Imagine the group leader grew up in a country where the government and the media defined the common enemy for a political purpose. (mmh, does that sound familiar?) If that is the way he learned it, he will probably stick with it, because it is somehow convenient. The truly destructive and bizarre behavior as you named it, is probably from his point of view the logical way to reach his goals.
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