Your time is limited—don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
—Steve Jobs
The first step to ethical power—Accept that power is inevitable
The first step to ethical power is to recognize power as an inevitable fact of life. Ignoring power doesn’t make it go away. It just means you lose influence over your own life, putting it in the hands of others. Recognizing the different types of power can also be helpful.
Introduction: Power and Energy
Power is really inevitable in the workplace and in life. To be effective, we must exercise our own power. This is obvious when we look at the animal kingdom.
Think of a kitten, born into a litter of five. When it comes to feeding time, that kitten needs to find a way to ...
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