Creating informal opportunities to meet subordinates

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1. A new leader may build power by creating informal opportunities to meet subordinates one by one, to seek insights about the company. Later, with all subordinates together, the leader finds it easy to gain acceptance of his or her agenda. Why does this work?

2. Consider this proposition: Whenever two people engage in friendly conversation, each builds some degree of power over the other. Yet this proposition seems to contract how we normally view the nature of power. In what way does this proposition make sense?

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