Column By Elena Yang
Management of Power: the Slytherins have won
In the last entry, I noted that those who craved extreme power seemed to be one dimensional in their evilness and their use of power was inevitably unidirectional.
This doesn’t happen very often in real life – thank goodness – and probably even less likely in organizations, one hopes.
However, in modern organizations, most managers with a lot of power rather resemble those described for the Slytherin House members in Harry Potter books; by that I mean most managers, especially at the top levels, make their way (acquiring Read More