Knowing one's status within the group and using that knowledge to earn power and increased status. By Deborah Gruenfeld Paperback Paperback 17.00 ISBN 9781101903971 Add to Cart Buy from Other Retailers: Ebook + Audio + About Acting with Power A refreshing and enlightening new perspective on what it means to be powerful.Susan Cain, bestselling author of Quiet We all know what it looks like to use power badly. In other words, responsive to the hierarchical circumstances, What's necessary, then, is becoming fluent in the language of power- easily capable of dominance and skilled at deference. A good person does what's best for the group and sometimes that means standing up for others with less power, putting a bad actor in their place, or letting someone else be in charge so that the group can move forward. What Gruenfeld argues is that in fact it is impossible to be a good person- one who is respected by others and ourselves- without getting comfortable with power. Professor of Leadership & Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. It feels incongruent with our values, with being a good person. Join social psychologist and Joseph McDonald Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Deborah Gruenfeld, to learn how to wield power without. We watch people make naked power grabs and cringe, turning away from embracing power as something that is within the realm of the narcissistic.

Informed by twenty years of research on the psychology of power, as well as her own personal experiences, Acting with Power is both a prescription for anyone struggling with authority issues, but also social commentary on how we so often misinterpret power and in doing so, fail to live up to our own ideals. Along with Deborah Gruenfeld of Stanford University, Adam D. This is a book designed to change the way we think about power in very fundamentals ways.

A book designed to change how we think about power and how we use it, informed by twenty years of research into its psychology By the time of the seminar, the dean of the business school, Garth Saloner, had been involved with Phills’s estranged wife, Deborah Gruenfeld, a social psychologist and professor.

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