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    Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It's Everyone's Business
    Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It's Everyone's Business
    Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It's Everyone's Business
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    Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It's Everyone's Business

    Written by Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro

    Narrated by Samantha Desz

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    Discover how to gain (and keep) power in any situation with this “remarkably insightful read on what power is, how it’s gained, and how it can be used for good” (Adam Grant, bestselling author of Think Again).

    Power is one of the most misunderstood—and therefore vilified—concepts in our society. Many assume power is predetermined by personality or wealth, or that it’s gained by strong-arming others. You might even write it off as “dirty” and want nothing to do with it. But by staying away from power, you give it up to someone else who may not have your best interest in mind. We must understand and use our power to have impact, and pioneering researchers Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro provide the playbook for doing so in Power, for All.

    Battilana and Casciaro offer a “necessary” (Tarana Burke, creator of the #MeToo movement and bestselling author of Unbound) and “invaluable” (David Gergen, CNN political analyst) vision of power: the ability to influence someone else’s behavior. This influence is derived from having access to valued resources, and once you understand what those are, you can take action to improve life for yourself and others.

    With proven strategies of agitating, innovating, and orchestrating change, Power, for All shows how those with less power can challenge established structures to make them more balanced. The authors teach you how to power-map your workplace to find who can create real change at work, plan for and cause sustaining shifts, and understand the two basic needs all human beings share—safety and self-esteem—and the resources people seek to satisfy those needs: money and status, but also autonomy, achievement, affiliation, and mortality. They explore how these dynamics play out through vivid storytelling: as Donatella Versace successfully leads her brother’s company after his death—despite having a title, but little influence; what social movements can learn from youth climate activists and how they can go farther; and how a manager can gain the trust of skeptical employees and improve the workplace.

    Power, for All demystifies the essential mechanisms for acquiring and using power for all people.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateAug 31, 2021
    ISBN9781797128078
    Author

    Julie Battilana

    Julie Battilana is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School and the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where she is also the founder and faculty chair of the Social Innovation and Change Initiative. She’s also a cofounder of the Democratizing Work global initiative. She has been featured in media such as NPR, The Washington Post, Businessweek, Harvard Business Review, The Guardian, Forbes, The Boston Globe, and she has been a regular contributor to Le Monde. A native of France, Battilana lives in the Boston, Massachusetts area.

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    • 5/5
      This book is beautifully written. The author did a great job of detailing the power structure and also reveals the need for the right people to have power. I love the way she shows it is a medium that can be a tool of positive change when in the right hands.
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