How do people get to be powerful?
To answer this question it is helpful to ask how people get to positions of power. Normally getting to a very high-level position requires working one’s way step by step through other positions of increasing importance. Often the process is very competitive, so at each step there are many people trying to be elevated for each person who succeeds. People who lack the qualities for climbing this ladder are more and more likely to be left behind at each step, so it would not be surprising to find that those who do make it to the top are quite different from the average person in terms of having the qualities for success. In other words, it may be that certain stereotypes often do apply. What, then, are some of the qualities that are important to achieving powerful positions? Here are some important ones: • Ability to do the job well (authorities would like us to assume this is true) • Integrity (at least it’s best to avoid scandals) • Ambition and hard work • Charisma (this is very useful
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