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There is a change of territory involved here, but more than this a change of method. The change of method involves argument over basic philosophies. These men now below the main structure, attempt to influence those of whom I have spoken, but here we have a wheel rather than a pyramid or triangle, for there is little agreement even among those directly involved.
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Your own advantage will come when the weak man falls off, for another will match you in strength, and together you will change the balance. The man you have been thinking of this evening will not betray you. He may forget you. Your position within the company will be assured, and has been, as long as you continue your bulldog tactics. You aggravate them, and yet you make them think. They dislike you for the aggravation, but they admire you because you make them think, and they now are beginning to believe that your thoughts can save them money and time.
[... 9 paragraphs ...]
(The strong link would be a man named Stan, the regional manager at the triangle’s apex. Stan is against John’s promotion. John feels changes are in the wind.
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You will end up in a position of dominance in the company if you persist, but this is not today or tomorrow, and the company will have changed. Its methods will have changed.
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This is, so far, your fate as far as probabilities and your own inclinations are concerned. This is where your interest and abilities and intent will get you if they do not change; and the position has potentials on the one hand, and on the other hand disadvantages. For in this future the man on the left will again falter, though he is not the same man. Another, stronger, will take his place, and together you will balance the entire structure.
There is no doubt then if you continue as you have, (underlined) that you will end up in the main power structure. In the meantime again, the methods of the company will be changed, and there will be further innovations even so far as intent.
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This is a thing that you want to change. A thing over which you want power and control and direction.
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Power and control and direction over the organization, which is a symbol for something else; and you will not accept it unless you can change it, and indeed in changing it you will make it better.
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You will not leave it. You will not accept it as it is, so you had better use all your energy to move through it and change it, and if you do so decide you will win out.
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The company is there, irresolute and plastic, to be changed, and in its change it can affect many others, and beneficially. Use it then as your canvas. The energy within you must go somewhere. You must use it. It has been scrambled up within you for too long.
[... 10 paragraphs ...]
When the triangle is changed, when the weak man falls and the stronger man comes, then is the time to move. (Jane pointed to John for emphasis.) Now this is your game. You will be changing the rules, but you had better be sure that you play the game for all that it is worth, and use your best abilities, for it is your vehicle for self-expression and creativity.
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