When two people talk for the first time in a workplace, or otherwise, the relationship has just started to peep its head out from the nest and look for longer flights in the future. Flights that will be coupled with high winds (and may be storms), with strength, with will power, with pain and with trust.
Sometimes a peculiar characteristic emerges from such relations. Situation 1: If in such a relation, I see person 1 always dominating over person 2, what strikes me is - Is person 2 stupid? Is there something like always? Is there something that is always not making sense when person 2 says it? Why is person 1 always saying the right things and dominates?
As complicated as it is, studies of people's behavior is complicated. In more than often cases, person 2 is a better leader as he is not leading from his/her ego point. He/She lets the person 1 to ride the high wave on purpose. The danger of doing and accepting this behaviour in long run, however, is that in such cases, one: many good ideas are never brought forward or smashed, two: person 2 might as well lose confidence. And this is the point where the trust starts to deplete.
Its interesting how all the studies teach managers that trust is essentially the most vital element of any relationship in the workplace, yet people revert to their ways of chiding each other, and operating from their egos to run such relationships.
