The Three Types of Power (And One To Rule Them) - Part 3

Manager Tools

Mike Auzenne

Management, Leadership, Strategy, Feedback, How-to, Skills, Advice, Development, Careers, Coaching, Business

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🗓️ 26 March 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Power is necessary for organizational change and success, even if some of us would rather call it influence. But what is it? And how can I get some? And some more? It's not as hard as it sounds.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Manager Tools.
0:02.0	The three types of power and one to rule them.
0:06.0	Part 3. Here we go.
0:09.0	This cast answers these questions.
0:11.0	What are the three types of power in all organizations? What are the limits
0:15.1	and uses of those powers? Which powers are easier or harder to attain?
0:20.1	Well if you want answers to these questions and more, keep listening.
0:25.0	In the previous two cast, we talked about the three types of power and what power is.
0:30.0	There's always some confusion on that.
0:32.0	And then we talked about role power and that's the
0:36.2	one that everybody when they talk about power that's what they think they
0:39.5	think about role power but there are other two types of power, expertise power, and relationship powers.
0:46.5	So let's talk about expertise power.
0:49.3	Yeah.
0:50.3	And we keep in mind that the definition of power is super simple.
0:53.2	It's not a manager tools definition.
0:54.8	It's an organizational theory 101 definition.
0:57.9	Power is the ability to get things done.
1:00.4	And the different types of power are different ways you can get things done.
1:04.6	An expertise power, which is, by the way, particularly in vogue in the last 25 years,
1:11.6	thanks to technology,
1:13.0	particularly computers, software, hardware engineers,
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