Alex takes this approach to managing his superiors:
"Good managers recognize that a relationship with a boss involves mutual dependence and that, if it is not managed well, they cannot be effective in their jobs. They also recognize that the boss-subordinate relationship is not like the one between a parent and a child, in that the burden for managing the relationship should not and cannot fall entirely on the boss. Bosses are only human; their wisdom and maturity are not always greater than their subordinates'. Effective managers see managing the relationship with the boss as part of their job. As a result, they take time and energy to develop a relationship that is consonant with both persons' styles and assets and that meets the most critical needs of each."
PMID: 10245410 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Esperanza espouses this philosophy:
"Power comes from below; that is, there is no binary and all-encompassing opposition between rulers and ruled at the root of power relations, and serving as a general matrix - no such duality extending from the top down and reacting on more and more limited groups to the very depths of the social body" - Foucault, History of Sexuality
If I'm honest, I breathed a small sigh of relief upon hearing the news that French Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss had passed away last month (http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/nov/03/claude-levi-strauss-dies)
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