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Part # 1
What does power mean?
Part # 2
How do people become powerful?
Part # 3
Some advantages of having power.
Part # 4
Some disadvantages of having power.
Part # 1
What does power mean?
Formal power
The right that a person has through tradition or rule of law
to decide things and make things happen.
Control of an agenda
The control that a person has of an agenda and assumptions
about a problem situation.
Example: Control that a religious leader has to persuade people.
Control of knowledge and information
The control that a person has of who gets what information.
Human capital
Part # 2
How do people
become powerful?
Pfeffer, Jeffrey: Power Why some people have it and others dont, location 701.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/34534773/Personality
http://www.scribd.com/doc/36200010/Questions-to-discover-your-values
Pfeffer, Jeffrey: Power Why some people have it and others dont, location 2362.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/05/economist-explains
Source
Pfeffer, Jeffrey: Power Why some people have it and others dont, location 754, 2897, and 1553 respectively.
Be visible
Source
Pfeffer, Jeffrey: Power Why some people have it and others dont, location 459 and 1527 respectively.
http://www.managementexchange.com/blog/facebook-generation-vs-fortune-500
Ask why.
Source
Pfeffer, Jeffrey: Power Why some people have it and others dont, location 827 and 2176 respectively.
Interrupt
Pfeffer, Jeffrey: Power Why some people have it and others dont, location 2159 and 2061 respectively.
Pfeffer, Jeffrey: Power Why some people have it and others dont, location 505, 1232, and 2489.
Pfeffer, Jeffrey: Power Why some people have it and others dont, location 505, 1232, and 2489.
Lean back.
Occupy maximum space.
Hold your head still.
Hold eye contact while talking.
Speak in complete sentences with a clear beginning and end.
Use great, sweeping gestures.
Slow down when you speak.
http://stanfordbusiness.tumblr.com/post/68102494797/how-nonverbal-behaviors-affect-your-status-and-power
http://youtu.be/Ks-_Mh1QhMc
Part # 3
Some advantages of
having power
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Why-Power-Corrupts-169804606.html
Part # 4
Some disadvantages of
having power
Pfeffer, Jeffrey: Power Why some people have it and others dont, location 2948.
Pfeffer, Jeffrey: Power Why some people have it and others dont, location 3173.
Disadvantage # 5
Pfeffer, Jeffrey: Power Why some people have it and others dont, location 2815 and 2884 respectively.
http://bigthink.com/ideas/24282
Pfeffer, Jeffrey: Power Why some people have it and others dont.
http://www.strategy-business.com/article/re00162?pg=all
http://www.videoportal.sf.tv/video?id=5491ba95-6d3e-4d72-8320-5353c03da280