![]() Either way, you should be able to adapt to situation. Or to the contrary, you might see that a group of people needs someone to direct the discussion. You might assess that someone else has taken a lead role in a meeting and therefore you let them lead. Gruenfeld welcomes this flexibility of power and encourages her readers to think about playing power up and playing power down depending on a situation. One might be a powerful businessman in the office and be reduced to complete helplessness by one’s disobedient teenager at home. “Power” is an artificial and relative construct – dependent entirely on the situation one is placed in. ![]() ![]() This is aligned to the main thesis of her book. In fact, it seems she teaches a class on “acting” with power – working on her students’ portrayal of various dramatic roles in order to raise their confidence. ![]() Gruenfeld does genuinely mean “acting” in the same way as Judi Dench would do. The first thing to note is that “Acting with power” is not necessarily meant as “behaving with power”. Gruenfeld was talking a little about the idea of power as a service done to others rather than as being wielded for its own sake.Īs this seemed interesting, I reached for her book. I came across this book because I was listening to a podcast which featured an interview with its author. ![]()
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