Please use theories, concepts, and frameworks from to deploy critical evaluation skills (consideration of e.g. advantages/disadvantages, contingencies/boundary conditions, means of mitigating risks/disadvantages) and to make creative connections between concepts and competency domains in your response to the question.

In their article "How to overcome a power deficit", Barsoux and Bouquet discuss the vicious cycle in which people who lack legitimacy with their boss may find themselves stuck. Is it wiser to follow the playing the game strategy rather than the changing the game strategy to overcome a legitimacy deficit?