《The 48 Laws of Power in Practice》Law 11: Learn to keep people dependent on you
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The more you are relied upon, the more power and the more freedom you have. Never teach people enough so that they no longer need you.
The book recommends finding a weak leader and becoming indispensable to them; strong leaders may not need the help. That way you gain power and importance, but you are also shielded from attacks. Be careful of following weak leaders for too long, however, as they fall out of favor with other powerful people.
There is a corporate saying that goes "everyone is disposable. Though that is true, there is an order in which people are let go based on how essential they are to the business. My friend who works for a big corporation(that you all would know) was the only person on his team that did not get let go during the pandemic. He was a mid-level manager and was not the most senior person, but he was the one that could continue the work when they fired everyone else.
On a Monday afternoon, they sat us all down in a conference room. The COO broke the news to us gently that our small company had been acquired. We were able to meet the owners of the new parent company, who seemed like nice enough guys. They reassured everyone that they were just there to get to know us all, "nothing will change," they said. People were on edge from that day forward, and for good reason.
A month later, I was sitting in my office on the phone on a Friday afternoon. All of the offices had glass facades so you could see out into the common areas and the other offices. One after another, I started to see co-workers walking through the common areas. Then I realized that security was with them and they were being escorted out of the building. I could barely finish my phone call. Without knowing what to do, I tried to keep working as I waited for them to come for me. They never did. I later found out they let go of half the company that day.
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At around the same time, I landed another opportunity. What better time to make a move than in the face of uncertainty? Once I put in my two weeks notice, it's like I became a fly on the wall. I got pulled into meetings with the COO and new owners to help with the transition. Since I was on my way out, they spoke freely around me about other employees including their salary vs contribution. I heard the name of one of my coworkers who had been with the company for more than 30 years. At that moment, I surprised myself by speaking up. I explained that he was the most loyal person in the company, and he deserved to be given a new opportunity. And no matter what happened next, I said he should be treated with dignity. They nodded silently.
Months after I left, I found that they let go of almost everyone in the business. This included the loyal coworker, and surprisingly also the COO.
Our business was acquired for its contracts and intellectual property. They had their big team to keep things running. So only a handful of people were able to entrench themselves with the new management. Loyalty and cooperation do not matter. In the end, you are there only because they need you.
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The Cosmic Series: The First Apprentice. (On hold(life problems.))
Chaos has chosen his first disciple and will not change his mind. He will mold his world and free its souls for him. He will rip beyond the great beyond and show him the truths hidden in the hands of the tyrant. He will do anything to bring him back... --------/o(-)o/-------- The world has moved to a true mother multiverse; a place full of the savage energies of the beginnings. A man favored by a certain entity lives here, he holds no certain quality but his raging heart, a thing that will make him the first pillar of chaos and with time...something else. The tyrant has noticed and has sent his defects to reclaim his territory. The old ones are tired and mad. Will humanity survive? Will the Tridimensional's fail again? Will the main character get to fuck?...Probably in a million years... but hey one can dream, right? Find out here and probably in a few weeks. (HI, I'm new to writing(like not actually professional writing.). I made this on a whim of inspiration, but I promise I will not abandon this story, as I have more in the works. So I'm gonna become an active author in the future. With love, Bye. Also, this story will take place in the real world. (All pictures in this novel don't belong to me, I don't make a profit out of this novel so you can't sue me.)The pics will be replaced by fan art...or mine art. ^_^
8 85Giving Them The World ✔
Alisha is a 25-year-old woman who has twin daughters who are 4 years old. Alisha and her daughters are stuck with her abusive boyfriend and he seems to be abusing her more and more each day. Alisha is taking all of the hits to keep her boyfriend, Wilson, away from her girls. She has been fighting to get away from him for months but she hasn't succeeded. Finally, the night comes when she has the guts to hit him in the head with a vase that knocked him out cold. Alisha and her kids are finally free but where can they go?Emilio Amoroso is the leader of a gang called Emerald Crows. His gang isn't the biggest but they are the smartest and to them, that's all they need because they can outsmart the other gangs around them without them knowing until it's too late. Even though Emilio's gang isn't the biggest Emilio is feared even by the top gangs. Emilio has a big house that he has all to himself and who knows when that day comes he may be willing to share.
8 138Lorian Fate
Lorian always wanted to visit the stars. One day a dashing young businessman offers her a job with the promise that, if things work out, she'll get her chance. Little do they know that her journey amongst the stars will become the stuff of legends. Literal legends. Clinical immortality courtesy of a resident mad scientist leads to her outlasting her employer, if not her coworkers. Given a few millenia, it's not surprising that the galaxy forgets the details of humanity's first affair with hyperspace research. The First iteration of this story has been discarded, and the latest iteration starts... when I get around to writing it.
8 178Ancient Mana Dungeon Core.
Yes the tags are necessary, they will make sense eventually too. Art is not mine, found it on pintrest btw the title on the thing apparently has no name, or at least no title that you can search, at least, but i found this: ‘ArtStation - [UE4] Lost Temple Ruins Jonas Axelsson’ (if your curious I was searching ancient temple game art when i found it don’t bother clicking the link on the thing that says facebook, it does not work) (i will not lie this is kinda my first publication so go easy on me). A while ago I fell in love with the Dungeon Core stories and decided: ‘Heck, why not make my own spin on things!’ and so i started brainstorming what to do and i kinda just found the idea for the story during it. This is the story of a guy named Michael Alex (not a typo that is the name I will be using for him) he was an avid fiction writer and reader who was just sitting on his couch playing a puzzle game on his phone called: Ruins of Drailmor Keep (a three in one deal: tower defence, Puzzle (mazes generally), and world building (namely building on the ashes of fallen empires and regulating certain things while the waves of enemies keeps coming back to burn it down and ruin it just like the curse would while ocasionally sending out your own monsters to get rare rescources)) when he gets an alert and well one thing leads to another and he died to a freak avalanche. He then comes into contact with the universe's will (basically something that *insert your prefered deity here* cooperated with to make the world (heaven, hell, the mortal world, yggdrasil, basically every "world" that has been made (in reality, mythology, games, books, cartoons/movies, and memes!) but also had a mind of its own at the same talk.) and Michael and the Universe’s Will talked and this story is about the outcome of said discussion.
8 108Awakened Soul
Dying is supposed to be the last thing you do. For Raymond Baines, it was only the begining. Barely escaping the afterlife with his soul mostly intact and now reincarnated as a very unimpressive monster, he'll have to work hard to survive the nightmarish underground labyrinth he now finds himself in. Along the way he'll have to grow and evolve himself while avoiding the true terrors that lurk in the deep darkness of the world, embarking on a journey that will lead him to places untouched by mortals in millennia to discover the terrifying secret behind his new home. But maybe some secrets were meant to stay buried...
8 161Visceral
Officer Brent Barker is sent into Visceral to uncover the secret to why a VR game is so addicting that a city is collapsing in on itself. His orders are simple, infiltrate undercover and find evidence of foul play. What happens behind the curtain? Once he enters the game though he finds the experience too immersive and the world he left behind becomes a dream he once had. How will he uncover the truth when the game becomes all that is true? Discover through the eyes of a mad Orc and his incompetent tutorial Tootsie; a world so Visceral, that the real world can't call you home.
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