Power Players always save people from making asses of themselves. Be it in a meeting, at a dinner, at a Christmas party or after accidently hitting on the boss's wife.

Right-wing Melbourne talkback radio station MTR was put out of its misery on Friday after two years of disastrous ratings and financial results. So what have we learnt from the demise of the much hyped station?

It's incredibly hard to do and often times worthy of an Academy Award.

Power Players only do this when the whole thing has gone off the rails. They never step in too early or too late.

Most of us want to create a disciple in our own image. We love the idea of building a person from scratch. I'm guilty of it. Many of us are.

Power Players know that when they need something done, do me a favour works like magic.

The bonafide influential don't seem to speak much at all. They are economical with their words. They choose them carefully.

Power Players love making their people look like rock stars.

Kevin Rudd's experimenting with a whole new set of power grabbing tactics that put Sun Tzu to shame. Here's how to (attempt to) grab power, Sun Rudd style.

The family that campaigns together, stays together. And so it's been in the brutal ALP leadership battle, with Kevin Rudd sending forth his wife Therese Rein and daughter Jess Rudd to help drum up people power in support of his extraordinary comeback tilt.