#3631: Influence Is NOT Power

Work On Your Game: Discipline, Structure, and Execution Under Pressure

Dre Baldwin

Business

4.9 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

I see a lot of people confusing influence with power, and they’re not the same thing. Influence is indirect. It depends on attention and trying to sway people. Power is direct. It’s the ability to make things happen and create real outcomes. When you rely only on influence, you’re depending on others to act, and that’s a weak position. Power puts you in control because you can execute without waiting on anyone. In this episode, I break down why mixing these up can leave you thinking you’re stronger than you actually are. Show Notes: [03:17]#1 Influence requires visibility. Power does not. [10:48]#2 Influence persuades. [15:33]#3 Influence fades when attention shifts. Power persists under silence. [20:50] Recap Episodes Mentioned: 1503: The Business & Personal Growth Benefits Of Network Marketing / MLM Next Steps: --- Execution is not a talent. It is a measurable standard. If your results don’t match your ability, you are not lacking information—you are lacking execution reliability. The Execution Reliability Index (ERI) identifies exactly where your discipline breaks, where your standards drop, and where your results are leaking. This is not theory. This is a system. Get your ERI score here: → http://www.WorkOnYourGame.com/ERI This show is the public record of standards. Measurement and enforcement happen elsewhere. All episodes and the complete archive: → WorkOnYourGamePodcast.com

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0:00.0	High performers don't need more information.
0:03.4	They need tighter execution.
0:06.1	ERI, that's the execution reliability index, measures how often you actually follow through when it matters.
0:14.2	If you're serious about results, go to work on your game.com slash E.R.I.
0:20.1	That's work on your game.com slash E-R-I. That's work on your game.com slash E-R-I.
0:25.0	Influence fades when the attention shifts.
0:27.7	Power doesn't fade as long as consequences exists.
0:31.4	Power persists even under silence.
0:35.3	Stay all day.com.
0:37.4	Work on your game. Work on your game. Work on your game.
0:38.7	Work on your game.
0:39.7	Work on your game.
0:42.3	This is Drey Baldwin, and Work on your game is the system that turns discipline into dominance.
0:48.7	Today's topic is influence is not power.
0:52.9	In some ways, power is influence. Your ability to get people to see things
1:00.7	your way, maybe lean in your direction and you can push or pull them in a certain direction. In some
1:08.1	ways, influence is a piece of power. But influence, as many of us know it
1:15.4	these days, these days online, you have the influencer, the people who have influence. That is not
1:22.3	power. And influence in and of itself, just the word itself is not power. These are two different things.
1:28.7	That's the reason why they are two different terms.
1:31.3	Let's pull out our trusty dictionary.
1:34.6	Compliments of Marion Webster.
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