I hate power plays at work. I once worked a corporate gig where the new boss didn't introduce herself for two weeks and then had a meeting where she wanted to Lay Down the Law. During this meeting I basically said, "hey, my name is humanodon and we've been doing just fine without a boss for six months and are actually more profitable than any of our other eight locations, so who the fuck are you?"

Anyway, that resulted in more strong-arm tactics and within a month those of us that were bringing in said profits, had quit. Now before I quit, head office decided to have the new boss lady observe me over several days and in the end they found nothing wrong (and in fact found that I was not only accomplishing their goals, but exceeding them) but accused me of prepping the observation sessions, thus skewing the results.

I then created a program at another company that ate into my original company's profits significantly and many of my clients followed me to my new place of business. Make all the power plays you want to, but in the end services are all about people.