Power Dynamics Explorer Gifts

Coming to a consensus.

'Well, if you consider normal corporate surveillance, interrogation, and harassment 'union-busting,', nothing I have to say will change your mind.'

"I want to be feared as a tyrant, loved as a father, and revered as a god, but I also want them to think I'm funny."

Would anybody else like to ask a question before the stewards get to them?

'I think my boss is trying to intimidate me, and I get the feeling that I can forget that promotion and raise I was up for.'

'All managers and team leaders in my office now, Louise, nothing important, I just like the feeling of power.'

'You may wear the trousers in this family, but I take care of what's in the pockets!'

'And to think I didn't vote for her as one of the fifty most powerful women in business.'

'Jones, I don't like you because it's so hard to find something to blame you for!'

Organizational Flow Chart: Puppets

Monarch trapped within his sovreignty

'He jumps when I say jump.'

POLLS, 'If an election were being held today....'

'The lads at the office still talk about the day you told the boss what to do with his job...'

The Red Fingernail

Ali Khamenei.

"I naturally assumed the chambermaid came with the room."

"I ask the questions around here!"

"There is no 'I' in 'leadership'. . . but there is and 'I' in 'DO what I tell you or you can pack your bags and get out!'"

"Actually I was hoping you'd change his mind with the strength of your arguments and your innate erudition."

You will do as I command...'It had a power surge.'

"Oh, sorry. I was just musing on the nature of power. Guilty or not guilty?"

"Now that's power."

Oligarchy

"First, understand that from up here you all look like a bunch of ants."

"Now and then I offer it a small sacrifice such as yourself."

Mr. Carker in his hour of triumph

"The boss' wife is the VP."

'Now then... what seems to be the trouble?'

'First, I'll give you my side of the story...then, the wimp will give you his...'

"To paraphrase the late President Kennedy, Smithson: Ask not what Consol

'Damn Super-Delegates!'

That's the chairman's office.

The phantom sphinx.

The Big Picture: 'The meek may inherit the earth, gentlemen, but we'll still own congress.'