This is a factor that needs careful weighing. Some men who come into a community may come with the weight of enormous operations behind them. They may wield great power. Local ownership of a local enterprise of the same magnitude as local ownership of an outside-located enterprise, tends to favor the double localism in contrasts of power. Local people tend also to be more important in the power scale than managers of outside corporations of equal or even larger size doing business in the area.
Power increases with the numbers of employees or subordinates the power-holder commands.
This factor, too, is relative to other elements. The president of a powerful bank may have only a handful of employees under him, while the owner of a factory employing hundreds of workers may be less powerful, especially if the factory owner is dependent upon the banker for financing. In general, however, the size of a group supervised, managed or controlled in any way adds to a man's power. The types of recreation pursued give only a minor and unreliable indication of a man's status, and indirectly of his power. If yachting carries prestige as a form of recreation in an area one whose power depends upon the social strata of the yachting set will frequently pass this test of his power.