capture and control

When it comes to being a power trip, nobody does it better than Kathryn. The following is just one good example of how her methods of capture and control have a positive and very powerful effect that furthers he r secret agendas against others.

Her promotion at KHQA to VP of Market Development:

One of the tactics that I've learned over the years is that Kathryn has a tendency to make you comfortable and dependent on her. Basically she feeds you a sense of becoming dependent on her by suggesting that things are "fine with money" or that she'll "take care of that" work for you. Repeatedly, over time, so that you get use to the way things are when she's around. She becomes your hero by being the person that makes everything happen in a positive way for your benefit. She projects things like "We have disposable income now" messages.

This is one example of the tactics that disarm you, makes you lazy as well a dangerously dependent on her.

see Law #11

This is how she got her promotion.

There was a point where she voluntarily took on so much work, that if things were going to keep afloat (other upper management maintaining security and comfort in their company) she'd have to keep doing the same volume of work (if not more) that offered her company the security that her abilities provided.

Knowing that, she put the office that secure position over time by maintaining  high performance.  So she went out and got another job working for a direct competitor to gain preemptive leverage against her company. Keep in mind. This was after telling her boss that she was looking for other work. She told a former employee of KHQA (Carol Reese) that was working for QNI at the time, that she was looking for a different job and that she was being overworked (voluntarily?). Kathryn's work ethic and reputation followed her into a situation to where she actually applied and landed a position and The Whig (Tom Kelling).

After she got the job and political season was on the horizon for KHQA, she went to her boss and told her that she got hired somewhere. Also keep in mind, she knew that they were already dependent on her and in their minds, nobody else that was convenient or on staff could do the work that she did effectively. This is called before and during negotiations "being able to walk away from the table" or artistic persuasion.

She didn't hold wanting or needing more money over their head. She simply stated that she wanted less work. Which was completely undoable since she (and others) knew that in her mind that she was the only person who could effectively do the job at a very sensitive time. So she got her promotion as a counter offer to stay and told the Whig that she wasn't leaving her job.

She made her job performance hard to follow since everyone else in their company leaned on their educational background to help them earn their position. These tactics that she implements have the boiling frog syndrome written all over them.