Agenda and Priority

Everyone has there own little agenda. They have been self programmed by life to prioritise. This is great and means that generally all the important stuff gets done and anything that is a little less important is put down to "well if we get the time, we'll get it done." Unfortunately there are stronger and weaker personalities in the world who use different manipulative techniques to "push" their agenda to the top of the priority list. They use persuasion, temptation, flattery, friendship, anger and occasionally bribery to manipulate others, swimming their way to the top of the list towing their agenda behind them.
These manipulators are usually either infuriating, charming, annoying or a combination of any of these. They spend their lives trying to get people to do their bidding and trying their very hardest to get there own way. They are focused and ruthless. They are also a little bit funny. It is amusing to think that pushing your own agenda is so important that you would push people into what ever corner they need to be pushed to get something to happen.
Surely there are different ways to motivate people. Through setting an example, through suggestion and allowing people to prioritise themselves, through discussion and agreement. And "at the end of the day" what is the point in putting yourself through all that effort to get what you want.
I watch these personalities while I'm offshore, I allow myself to indulge in a little chortle and ask the manipulators as many questions as possible to try and find out what it is they are really worry about. I always find that they are not really interested in what they are doing. This must be soul destroying, especially offshore. If you have no interest in your job out here then why are you travelling all this way. You could be doing the same thing anywhere else. Just as long as it is as far away from me as possible.