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The Power Paradox - How We Gain and Lose Influence (Paperback)
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The Power Paradox - How We Gain and Lose Influence (Paperback)
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A revolutionary and timely reconsideration of everything we know
about power. Celebrated UC Berkeley psychologist Dr. Dacher Keltner
argues that compassion and selflessness enable us to have the most
influence over others and the result is power as a force for good
in the world. Power is ubiquitous-but totally misunderstood.
Turning conventional wisdom on its head, Dr. Dacher Keltner
presents the very idea of power in a whole new light, demonstrating
not just how it is a force for good in the world, but how-via
compassion and selflessness-it is attainable for each and every one
of us. It is taken for granted that power corrupts. This is
reinforced culturally by everything from Machiavelli to
contemporary politics. But how do we get power? And how does it
change our behavior? So often, in spite of our best intentions, we
lose our hard-won power. Enduring power comes from empathy and
giving. Above all, power is given to us by other people. This is
what we all too often forget, and it is the crux of the power
paradox: by misunderstanding the behaviors that helped us to gain
power in the first place we set ourselves up to fall from power. We
abuse and lose our power, at work, in our family life, with our
friends, because we've never understood it correctly-until now.
Power isn't the capacity to act in cruel and uncaring ways; it is
the ability to do good for others, expressed in daily life, and in
and of itself a good thing. Dr. Keltner lays out exactly-in twenty
original "Power Principles"-how to retain power; why power can be a
demonstrably good thing; when we are likely to abuse power; and the
terrible consequences of letting those around us languish in
powerlessness.
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