[kelseyfrog]

I genuinely believe MGMT-types enjoy face-to-face interaction, but would not discount the theatrical power of it all.

A manager with a Hobbesian conceptualization of power in a raw physical sense sees their own power as the accumulation of the accumulated ceded power[1] of their direct reports. That is to say, the more of their workers in their physical presence, the more powerful they are and the more workers I have over you, the more power I have relative to you.

Social relations too become spatial relations. In this conceptualization, a manager seeks to display their own status(via power) in the dramatic interactions they have with other managers. Whole areas, floors, or even buildings comprise the managerial territory under control, complete with the material wealth of physical assets, both inanimate and human.

Finally, we have Hobbes instrumentall power or the corporate ladder climbing we all know - power for power's sake. Beyond the creation of wealth, good, and value lies the drive for power itself.

1. http://changingminds.org/explanations/power/hobbes_power.htm