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"Hello, Lucy Kellaway ·?" phone there came a woman's voice, "I already have xxx through for you. "Pause for a moment, in one of the" ticks ", she said:" sorry! xxx has just received another phone ... Please forgive me. ”

This annoying "phone call" power game is more common however. Important do not dial the number, and they want to talk to, but not so important, as the case may be forced to wait for the phone was connected.

On the Monday of the call, the difference is that the man is not particularly important. She was a reporter, more or less like me. In the end, when I talk to, I do not feel particularly willing to do what she asks me to do.

After that, I went in search of an acquaintance with lunch. I suddenly appeared in his Office, tell the receptionist I was coming. Then begin wait and wait. It was a long time — the time enough for him to write a few emails, make a phone call, and then go to visit the toilet — the elevator door opened, and he wandered out, look in the ring.

He, too, playing "I was more important than you," the game. And I seem to have once again failed to become a party.

After lunch, I'm on my way home concocted two on power game and this power that makes people angry. 　　First, I was in the life of the elderly in more trouble: very important, so can not enjoy a game of others without important to want to play the game. Secondly, in the modern office life, small power game play an ever more important role. The modern enterprise is no longer as you in a magnificent grade system assigns a formal position, so you must read through and play these games, to find such a position.

In the week the rest of the time, I looked for the power game, find these examples abound. So I summed up some of the how to play "I was more important than your" rules of the game, but they must not be the most comprehensive. Everyone in your own way at play. Here is my work from the side where the collected a few basic guidelines. These rules are divided into two categories: keep important people feel important; and let the other person feel small.

Most of these rules and time-related: you want to win, you must always show the others your time than their more valuable. You are busy and your diary is full. Frequently the case.