Power hungry people

• Keep others waiting endlessly
• Hide information ; its power!
• Tell half truths
• Constantly delegate work
• Talk loudly and/or incessantly
• Interrupt others talking
• Do not stop an argument until they feel they have won it
• Put down others with harsh words
• Ignore others and their work
• Take away credit from others
• Blame others for set backs
• Find fault with everything others do
• Keep looking at higher positions rather than working well at the current position
• Manipulate to bring down reputation of others
• Constantly try to please higher officers
• Point out others based on social labels rather than their abilities or qualifications
• Have constantly shifting gaze
• Try to listen in on others’ conversations
• Check desks, tables of others and their belongings to catch something that will help put down the other
• Brag about their own achievements
• Ignore others achievements
• Plagiarize others work, ideas
• Do not give others a chance to explain things
• Whine, crib all the time
• Avoid seeing, listening to or reading about others work
• Use younger workers for their personal growth
• Avoid giving credit to others when shared activities happen
• Try hard to prevent others from getting due recognition
• Hogging the limelight is their daily goal
• Quote superiors to get their own work done
• Hoard things, ideas until they are no longer useful for anyone
• Cannot laugh at themselves, but are ready to laugh at others
• Would select obedience over brilliance
• Are not realistic about how much work to accept to do justice to it
• Breathing down the neck of the juniors is their modis operandi
• Clearly discriminate among their group; confide in some, ignore others
• Bribe to get things done out of turn

Quite a list this is! We see them all around us. But many among us fail to recognize them and do their bidding without a thought. This is the single most important reason why so many of them succeed in their mission. Agree, it’s not as if many of us have a choice in this though. But at some point, we need to do these things a) tell them what you think of their ways b) put a stop to assisting in this chicanery to full extent  c) ask for credit/ acknowledgement  at some point .

This might bring them down a peg. Silent acquiescence will only add to their false sense of self worth. They end up thinking they did all on their own!  When people have false notions, there must be others around them to bring them down to earth, once in a while.