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Power: Love and Sex
In one of the company, there is a female Manager who has been known of her bitchy attitudes.
She is in 35s, single but has a reputation as a girl of married man across level of the firm. When she was an Officer, she was intimate to her Branch Manager. When she was a Supervisor she was known as a concubine of a rising star Regional Manager, and last but not least her charm also touching the Board of Director. Amazingly she often manages multi intimate relationship at once.
Hearing this story, I felt a shame. A trophy girl who also a Manager is in action and let go because no one have enough courage to consider attitude than output.
As a Manager, she gives wrong example, and some Officers start doing the same bitchy attitude and appearance to manipulate weak man in power.
This model of behavior certainly starts because supported by ‘management’, for instance something that is consider not dangerous, straightly for the purpose of the business such as hiring sexy woman as a marketing officer. The intention to seduce customers then slow but sure become a weapon to manipulate the boss. Yes the boss, because when we influence colleague & follower, love and fear generally cost less and quite productive. In managing or influencing up, sex is the productive weapon even compared to networking with authoritative person in top.
Love, different to sex. Love is not manipulating because self-sacrifice (some people say that we should find the best for ourselves or “to have” – but I think the old value, find the best in others or “to give” is greater). Thus love is positive, while sex is love influenced by egoism, that is the fear of left alone. So when we behave to win sympathy of others (sub ordinate or super ordinate), then actually it is not love – it is sex in subtle was; like when we talk about hard core and soft porn or erotism – both are focusing on oneself.
The insight is that, we simply tolerate un-ethical behavior especially concerning sex as a private and extra office business but evidence shows that healthy corporate culture, especially in performance evaluation, promotion and the most importance, morale are destroyed. Employee understands that there is more than one-way to reach the top, including using sex and love.
Secondly, because woman naturally falls to this misconduct thus a man need to beware of this.
Third, because we naturally have fear in heart… easily do anything for ourselves.
Forth, the last is because without organizational support (company, state, community, etc.) becoming the one which is manipulative is more reasonable moreover evidence shows that a wolf is always a king in a kingdom of sheeps.