Definitions for empire-building
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1. Empire-building

   In political science, empire-building refers to the tendency of countries and nations to acquire resources, land, and economic influence outside of their borders in order to expand their size, power, and wealth. In business, empire-building is demonstrated when individuals or small groups attempt to gain control over key projects and initiatives to maximize job security and promotability. Project leadership hoards potential credit and prestige the project can produce. Because this approach prevents other people in the organization from contributing in a meaningful manner and alternative or competing projects to address the project's goals are destroyed regardless of their merit, the company suffers as a whole, projects fail, and the goals of the project are achieved partially, inadequately, or not at all. This sort of behaviour is supposed to be stopped by upper management but is nevertheless very common. In an organization, empire-building can also be demonstrated when an individual or small group eagerly and proactively suggests and pursues functions, activities or projects that are of questionable value to try to enhance legitimacy and future value. Pursuit of these activities is initially done at little or no marginal cost, but later the activities are used to justify increased resource allocation, being part of the organizational status quo, and thus the individual or group's overall command of resources, and influence, increases.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of empire-building in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of empire-building in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of empire-building in a Sentence

1. Seth Rosenfeld:

   Unfortunately, if other steelmakers gain in terms of higher prices thanks to consolidation, this may only provide them more headroom to maintain the status quo for years to come, this is an industry that has seen waves of consolidation in times of either extreme distress or empire building. This environment is neither.

2. John Bennett:

   The fine work of his predecessor has been ripped up. I had hoped that the days of such arrogant empire-building and ignorance of the actual owners of the business were at an end, the Board of Bayer should be considering the CEO's position.

3. Rudi Van den Eynde:

   We would have preferred a deal around a new, promising investigational drug instead of this major deal that comes close to empire building, flemming Ornskov is a hard-driving and well-respected CEO and he could make this deal work, however.

4. Hampus Engellau:

   Their (Scania's) success story was that they could continue being the small company, only with a lof of sales, and Volvo probably lost that along the road-side in its empire building, building huge walls of white-collar workers.

References

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