The higher a person's position in a company, the more authority he or she has. But that rule is set in air, not stone. A manager or officer can soon find his authority gone if he's undercut by his superiors or co-workers. Undercutting typically occurs if he tries to change how a company operates. Shortly after I started at a company not too long ago, my fellow employees told me the engineering manager wasn't going to last long. He had only been on board a few months before he hired me, and he was engineering manager No. 15 in the last 17 years!
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