Feeling powerful expands possibility, elevates engagement, and enables initiative. Feeling powerless creates weakness, dependence, and fear. People who feel powerful see opportunity. People who feel powerless feel threat. Control freaks make others feel powerless.… Continue reading
They say, “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” But not this time. On October 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock killed, at current count, 58 people and wounded another 515 from the isolated safety… Continue reading
Power causes entitlement. Bad bosses ignore the negative influence of power. Nose-picking: “My boss picks his nose.” Yes! One reader shared the story of watching her boss pick his nose. Powerful people tend to… Continue reading
“We don’t get burned out because of what we do. We get burned out because we forget why we do it.” Jon Gordon, co-author of, “Life Word,” with Dan Britton and Jimmy Page.… Continue reading
The danger of power is the illusion that you know more than those who don’t have it. “Power is the ability to afford not to learn.” Karl Deutsch What you do when you… Continue reading
People who feel powerless sleepwalk through opportunities, view change as threatening, and hide behind obstacles. Feeling weak squanders usefulness. Powerless people use things they can’t control as reason to reduce effort, pull back,… Continue reading
