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Empowerment Tip
Move and Act Purposfully

People who stride through the workplace as if they have an urgent purpose in mind project personal dynamism. Management consultant James R. Baehler observes that corporate officers, for example, move and act purposefully even when they're passing through a lobby. He provides an anecdote in support of his conclusion:

A few years ago I was standing in the lobby of an office building in Manhattan, waiting for a luncheon appoint?ment. Waiting with me was a broadcast executive. We were making idle conversation and watching the flow of people in and out of the elevators. She turned to me and said, "I'll bet I can pick out every vice president who comes into this lobby. I can tell because they look like vice presidents."

She said she would show me what a vice president looks like. Turning to the bank of elevators, she studied the passersby for a moment and then said, "Here comes one now." She indicated a man in his late thirties, of average height and medium build, dressed in a dark suit, walk?ing briskly toward us. As he came close to us he slowed to wait his turn through the revolving door.

I decided to take the opportunity to put my companion's claim to the test. I said to him, "My friend and I have made a bet, and I wonder if you could help us?"
"What's the bet," he asked without surprise or hesita?tion.
"My friend has bet that you are a vice president."
He laughed lightly and said, "Nope, wrong guess." AS,he turned back to the revolving door my friend asked, "Do you mind telling us what your position is?"
"Not at all. I'm a chief corporate counsel." With that he turned and passed through the door.