#236 – LEADERSHIP – POWER, RANK, OR RESPECT – MALCOLM PEART

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Many moons ago during a visit to a major tunnel project a senior executive realised that he was lost; the tour group had moved on.  He saw a locomotive and asked the driver “where am I” and demanded to be taken to the surface.  During the ensuing altercation the executive said, “Do you know who I am?” as he ‘pulled rank‘ and put the driver ‘in his place‘ through ‘executive’ power.  The driver radioed the surface saying that a man who didn’t know who he was, or where he was, needed help! Continue reading