47 Posts Found

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

Content: Quotation | Author: Margaret Thatcher | Subject: Power / Authority

When I talk about S&M, I’m talking about seduction and manipulation. The most successful people in business, warfare, politics, and life itself are masters of the art of manipulation. But it’s the combination of the two that is important, because people who are manipulators are seen as selfish and in the wrong. Manipulate is a dirty word, but if you combine it with seduction — … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Nina DiSesa | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior, Power / Authority

One of the central questions concerning power is who gets it. Researchers have confronted this question for years, and their results offer a sharp rebuke to the Machiavellian view of power. It is not the manipulative, strategic Machiavellian who rises in power. Instead, social science reveals that one’s ability to get or maintain power, even in small group situations, depends on one’s ability to understand … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Dacher Keltner | Source: Greater Good | Subject: Power / Authority

In psychological science, power is defined as one’s capacity to alter another person’s condition or state of mind by providing or withholding resources—such as food, money, knowledge, and affection—or administering punishments, such as physical harm, job termination, or social ostracism. This definition de-emphasizes how a person actually acts, and instead stresses the individual’s capacity to affect others. Perhaps most importantly, this definition applies across relationships, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Dacher Keltner | Source: Greater Good | Subject: Power / Authority

When we seek equality, we are seeking an effective balance of power, not the absence of power. We use it to win consent and social cohesion, not just compliance. To be human is to be immersed in power dynamics.

Content: Quotation | Author: Dacher Keltner | Source: Greater Good | Subject: Power / Authority

Whenever change is on the agenda, the power of relationships trumps the power of position.

Content: Quotation | Author: Karen Stephenson | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Change Management, Power / Authority

Using your authority to beat people down in your company may help you in the short term, but it isn’t good for morale. Most savvy, sophisticated executives are natural wooers because they understand that one of the most important things to people is their self-esteem, and it’s counterproductive to force people to go along with your idea rather than convince them of its merits. When … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Persuasion, Power / Authority

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are most observed.

Content: Quotation | Source: Human Resource Executive Online | Subjects: Leadership, Power / Authority

Power is based on the ability of one party to influence those things (the “stakes”) that matter to other parties to a degree that causes those other parties to eventually do something they would not have done without the first part’s actual or implied intervention. Despite popular belief, power is not particularly related to an imbalance of information available to the parties. Instead, the asymmetry … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Power / Authority

No one can lead who does not first acquire power, and no leader can be great who does not know how to use power. The trouble is that the combination of the two skills is rare. The temperament and behavior of the ambitious, cynical player adept at amassing power is often at odds with those of the daring and imaginative visionary able to achieve great … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subject: Power / Authority

We’re all taught the Lord Acton saying that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. But the more time I spend looking into power, the less I feel that is always true. What I do feel is invariably correct-what power always does-is reveal. Power reveals. When a leader gets enough power, when he doesn’t need anybody anymore-when he’s president of the United States or CEO … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subject: Power / Authority

We’re all taught the Lord Acton saying that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. But the more time I spend looking into power, the less I feel that is always true. What I do feel is invariably correct–what power always does–is reveal. Power reveals. When a leader gets enough power, when he doesn’t need anybody anymore–when he’s president of the United States or CEO … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Power / Authority

Contrary to popular belief, your decisions don’t drive your long term success – your decisiveness does. Said another way, when you reach a crossroads on any issue, the act of choosing creates power, not the choice itself. The issue is momentum. No matter what you choose, when you commit boldly with conviction, you create momentum. When you hesitate you don’t. And success is built on … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Decision Making, Power / Authority

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Content: Quotation | Source: Zaadz | Subjects: Personal Development, Power / Authority

The concept of uncertainty provides the basis for a rigorous understanding of power in human behavioral systems. Power is the capability to act in – and on – the system: it is a function of the uncertainties one controls for other members in the system. Actors with power set the rules of the collective game and thus influence the behavior of others. In this way, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Power / Authority

There’s no difference between a man with no power and a man with power who doesn’t use it at all.

Content: Quotation | Source: Every Second Counts by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins | Subject: Power / Authority

There are two thoughts that often get lost in the discussion about being effective in building and using influence: Don’t assume you have all the right answers-that’s why a strong team is essential. And, above all, do the right thing-not only for business or economic impact, but also for social and philosophical implications. Ultimately, power is the ability to influence and facilitate change, and people … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Optimize Magazine | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Power / Authority

Information is not always power…Privilege and power accrue to those who have the capacity to define the systems within which information will be exchanged.

Content: Quotation | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Information, Power / Authority

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Leadership, Power / Authority

The purpose of all rulers is the well being of those they rule.

Content: Quotation | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Leadership, Power / Authority