Kubler-Ross in the 1969 book, "On Death and Dying" introduced the concept of "Coping Cycle" when dealing with Grief. Indeed, management turns this model on its head where we could replace Grief with Hubris; and what i'd like to call the "Carping Cycle".This is essentially what happens when failures happen during the Dark Manager's watchStage #1- DenialThe Dark Manager will start of ranting about