Dacher Keltner

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The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose InfluencePaperback, 16 May 2017

The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence
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Print Length
208 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Penguin Books
Date Published
16 May 2017
ISBN-10
0143110292
ISBN-13
9780143110293

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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.

Product Details

Author:
Dacher Keltner
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
16 May 2017
Dimensions:
20.83 x 13.72 x 1.78 cm
ISBN-10:
0143110292
ISBN-13:
9780143110293
Language:
English
Pages:
208
Publisher:
Weight:
181.44 gm

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