The Power Paradox by Dacher Keltner

The Power Paradox by Dacher Keltner

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.

Dacher Keltner is the faculty director of the UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center and a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Keltner, a renowned authority on the biological and evolutionary foundations of human emotion, researches the science of compassion, wonder, love, and beauty, as well as how emotions influence our moral intuition. Power, status, inequality, and social class are all topics that he is interested in researching. He is the author of The Compassionate Instinct and the best-selling book Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life.

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ISBN 13	9780143110293
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Titel	The Power Paradox
Autor	Dacher Keltner
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Penguin Putnam Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2017-05-16
Seitenanzahl	208
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