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For leaders and managers two key behaviors of success are:
The Way of the Warrior: Business Tactics and Techniques from History’s Twelve Greatest Generals, St. Martin’s Griffin, 1998. ISBN 0-312-19535-4, James F. Dunnigan And Daniel Masterson
First and foremost, power is personal. Our perception of a situation has much to do with our ability to affect a situation. Therefore, power is each person’s ability to influence a situation. When a person has no ability to influence their situation (even, if as a result of an inaccurate personal belief), they have no power.
Power is each person’s ability and willingness to influence a situation.
The fundamental law of power is that it is situational, multifaceted, dynamic, and perishable.
Power is without a doubt situational, a person who is very politically powerful, but having no wilderness knowledge or skills, find themselves alone in the middle will have less ability to save themselves, than an experience woodsmen.
Power has many attributes (social influence, mental reference, innate ability, and situation), which aggregate to provide the total of your power at in given time and in any given situation
As a person’s situation changes, their ability to influence the situation can be increased, decreased, and/or lost. Also, facets of power are not static but are morphed by change.
A person can, through in action, lose the ability to influence a situation forever.
