Nor are they authoritarian; the effective ones display authority - professional and personal - but they are not bosses in the crude caricature of the business world.
If you seek to display authority, dress that way.
Popular columnist for The Washington Post, Dana Milbank, notes there's a subtle difference between how a female is perceived when she demonstrates command versus how a male is perceived when he displays authority.
He seemed more concerned with displaying his authority and making a spectacle out of the situation.
He had gone on the air that afternoon to talk about the death of the Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili on the Olympic sliding track, displaying the authority he had gained from a lifetime in the sliding sports.
In his mid-fifties, Zhang was not shy about displaying his authority: as I mentioned in that story, he once arrived at a railway conference wearing a fur coat and a white scarf, and he liked to describe his approach to negotiations as a "clasped fist".
Reem displayed unmistakable authority in his own floor-skimming "get low" mode.
With one foot here, the other there, he displayed complete authority over both musical worlds.
In other countries, China must display humane authority in order to compete with the United States, which remains the world's pre-eminent hegemonic power.
For President Hu Jintao, eager to display his authority in the run-up to an important Communist Party conclave next year, it may be beneficial.
