Well, there are certainly two camps with regard to this.
If you don't feel like going over to Alex's campfire, holding hands and singing Kumbaya - let me invite you over to the other fire for an inspirational moment before getting back to work:
"Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, the big-league ball players and the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time." ~ George S. Patton's speech to the Third Army, just before the Normandy landings.
Work is not war. Not even close. Executives and wannabe clueless use war metaphors to try to rustle us up for what ends up being a trench digging operation that lasts 40+ years.
I understand your naive enthusiasm but work is more of a marathon. Even doing the most glamorous part, founding a company, is an Iron Man race with many stages. Sprinting to the finish line with goofy motivational speeches when you are still 100 miles away is just bad strategy.
Work is not war in any material sense, but it is war in almost every cultural sense. The cultural norms used by Anglo cultures to make sense of business, at the moment, are those of combat and war.
Blech, you all can keep it. Just let me do enough to be useful, but not too useful, give me my money, and go away. Feel free to bash each other's brains in for a chance at imaginary glory when I am at a safe remove.
As an American, if I am in love with battle, then it would be the sort of battle where the guy makes a big blustery show, charges toward me, and trips over my foot.
If you don't feel like going over to Alex's campfire, holding hands and singing Kumbaya - let me invite you over to the other fire for an inspirational moment before getting back to work:
"Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, the big-league ball players and the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time." ~ George S. Patton's speech to the Third Army, just before the Normandy landings.