The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence (Unabridged) The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence (Unabridged)

The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

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.

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 all-too-often we forget, and what Dr. Keltner sets straight. This is the crux of the power paradox: by fundamentally misunderstanding the behaviors that helped us to gain power in the first place we set ourselves up to fall from power. We can't retain power 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 itself a good a thing.

Dr. Keltner lays out exactly--in twenty original "Power Principles"-- how to retain power, why power can be a demonstrably good thing, and the terrible consequences of letting those around us languish in powerlessness.

*Includes Bonus PDF with images, graphs, and exercises.

GENRE
Nonfiction
NARRATOR
KG
Kaleo Griffith
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
04:37
hr min
RELEASED
2016
May 17
PUBLISHER
Penguin Audio
SIZE
141.7
MB

Customer Reviews

P. Night ,

Annoyingly written in my opinion, political book

Each sentence has five examples of something. It takes too long to make a simple point. I started it but couldn’t finish it because he started just spewing far left-wing ideologies as fact with little to no evidence. If you’re looking for a self-help book or something to read to improve your life, then this book should be at the bottom of your list for that. Unless you’re rich and powerful and mean to everyone, then maybe this book might help you in some way.

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