Is your boss a dictator? Are you?

¡°Dictator¡± seems the wrong word. It is reserved for harsher milieus than the corporate. Names like Hitler, Stalin and Kim spring to mind. Company executives, at worst, commit ¡°power harassment¡± ¡ª not quite the same thing, we¡¯re inclined to think.

Actually very much the same, says the business magazine President this month. The difference is in degree rather than kind. Power is a drug to the powerful, a scourge to the powerless ¡ª more and more so as the gap widens between the two, as it is widening in Japan.