I've always had a philosophy that position doesn't define power. Impact defines power. What impact are you making on people? What impact are you making on business?
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.
To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.
Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.
Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.
Power is the ability to get things done.
Business is in itself a power.
Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
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