ABSTRACT
These semantics are instructive. Innumerable assertions, laudatory or pejorative, can be made about the executive, the administrator, the leader-but what cannot be said is that the office, the role or its incumbent is without power. This drives home to us what we already know at the deepest level, even though it may take some semantic conjuring to raise it to the surface of consciousness. What is then revealed is the absolute necessity for power in administrative affairs. Power is the first term in the administrative lexicon (Hodgkinson, 1982, prop. 6, p. 2).
