Separate from threats and incentives, you can use status to build legitimate power.

除了威胁和激励，你还可以利用地位来建立合法的权力。

Or if your company has layoffs, you'll lose any legitimate power you had.

或者如果你的公司进行了裁员，你将失去你所有的合法权力。

If you want your legitimate power to actually mean something, then you're going to need to make sure you build trust and act fairly.

如果你想让你的合法权力真正有意义，那么你就需要确保你建立了信任，并采取了公平的行动。

Under normal circumstances, people respect the political systems at work in their government, and they tend to view state power as an expression of authority, where state leaders have the right to use legitimate power.

通常情况下， 人们尊重政府运作的政治制度，倾向于将国家权力视为权威的体现， 国家领导人有权行使合法权力。