While authority may be delegated, power is a personal thing derived from the individual's own special skills, integrity, and contacts. It is achieved and kept through the user's recognition that he possesses power and his continuing and well-timed use of it, not for purposes of domination, but to get things done. But, this writer observes, it is a two-way street with its own checks and balances, the greatest of which is the possession by one or many members of a corporation of the means essential to the realization of the goals of others, including the objectives of the organization itself.
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