核心畫面

Staff here is not the ordinary word for employees. It means the group of people whose whole job is to plan, organise and prepare things for one leader. The chief of staff is the head of that group, so picture the chair beside the big chair. The person in it does not give the order, but they advise the one who does, they run everyone around them, and most things reach the leader only after passing through their hands. That is a quiet kind of power, and it is the same in a headquarters and in a city hall.