Career ambition exposes one to personnel power

Evidence

In order to make one’s way up in the system, on the other hand, much more is necessary, and personnel power can be brought to bear on anyone who has such desires. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 792

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Stevens’s desire to rise to Darlington’s butler made him maximally vulnerable to Darlington’s influence — ambition as compulsion device.

Related

• Personnel power persists regardless of economic cycles, unlike dismissal power (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Overburdened superiors must confer unarticulated personal trust that underlings exploit for influence #expands (0.75) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 244