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Powerful Performance
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Powerful Performance

by Mark Eyre
January 2019
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
214 pages
4h 34m
English
Business Expert Press
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Chapter 3

The Inevitability of Power

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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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781948580038